CVE-2026-16221

Description

Impact: fast-uri versions from 2.3.1 through 4.1.0 (including the 3.x line up to 3.1.3 and the 2.x line up to 2.4.2) do not treat a literal backslash character (U+005C) as an authority delimiter. Node's native WHATWG URL parser, used by fetch, undici, and Node's http and https clients, normalizes the backslash to a forward slash for special schemes such as http, https, ws, wss, ftp, and file. As a result, the two parsers extract different hosts from the same input string. Applications that use fast-uri to enforce host-based policy such as allowlists, denylists, loopback or SSRF filtering, redirect validation, or outbound proxy routing before passing the same URL into Node's URL or fetch consumers can be steered to an unintended destination, including cloud metadata endpoints, loopback, or internal hosts. Patches: upgrade to fast-uri 4.1.1, 3.1.4, or 2.4.3. Workarounds: none.

CVSS Metrics

• v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.25%• Percentile: 17%

Techniques & Countermeasures

• CWE-436•Interpretation Conflict

  Product A handles inputs or steps differently than Product B, which causes A to perform incorrect actions based on its perception of B's state.

Affected Systems

• chainguard•airflow-2

  all

• chainguard•airflow-core-2

  all

• chainguard•arangodb-3.12

  < 3.12.9.4-r15

• chainguard•argo-workflows-ui-3.7

  < 3.7.17-r0

• chainguard•argo-workflows-ui-4.0

  < 4.0.8-r0 | < 4.0.11-r0

• chainguard•commercial-gitlab-rails-ee-19.1

  all

• chainguard•commercial-gitlab-rails-ee-19.2

  all

• chainguard•commercial-gitlab-rails-ee-19.3

  all

• chainguard•commercial-gitlab-rails-ee-fips-19.1

  all

• chainguard•commercial-gitlab-rails-ee-fips-19.2

  all

• chainguard•commercial-gitlab-rails-ee-fips-19.3

  all

• chainguard•gemini-cli

  < 0.49.0-r6

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-18.1

  < 18.1.6-r36

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-18.10

  all

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-18.11

  all

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-18.6

  all

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-18.7

  all

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-18.8

  all

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-18.9

  all

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-19.0

  all

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-19.1

  < 19.1.7-r4

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-19.2

  all | < 19.2.5-r2

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-19.3

  < 19.3.1-r6

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-fips-18.1

  all

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-fips-18.10

  all

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-fips-18.11

  all

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-fips-18.6

  all

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-fips-18.7

  all

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-fips-18.8

  all

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-fips-18.9

  all

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-fips-19.0

  all

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-fips-19.1

  < 19.1.6-r5

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-fips-19.2

  all | < 19.2.5-r2

• chainguard•gitlab-rails-ce-fips-19.3

  < 19.3.1-r3

• chainguard•jupyter-base-notebook

  all

• chainguard•keep-ui

  < 0.54.2-r1

• chainguard•keep-ui-fips

  < 0.54.2-r2

• chainguard•kibana-8.19

  < 8.19.18-r2

• chainguard•kibana-8.19-bitnami

  < 8.19.18-r2

• chainguard•kibana-8.19-iamguarded

  < 8.19.18-r2

• chainguard•kibana-9.0

  < 9.0.8-r34

• chainguard•kibana-9.0-bitnami

  < 9.0.8-r34

• chainguard•kibana-9.0-iamguarded

  < 9.0.8-r34

• chainguard•kibana-9.1

  < 9.1.10-r30

• chainguard•kibana-9.1-iamguarded

  < 9.1.10-r30

• chainguard•kibana-9.2

  < 9.2.8-r17

• chainguard•kibana-9.2-iamguarded

  < 9.2.8-r17

• chainguard•langfuse-2

  < 2.95.12-r35

• chainguard•langfuse-2-worker

  < 2.95.12-r35

• chainguard•langfuse-3

  < 3.224.1-r0

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References (14)

• https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/security/advisories/GHSA-v2hh-gcrm-f6hx
• https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16221
• https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/commit/0542a216860fd70c062a4730e620576f62ded057
• https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/commit/2d50fbabc80e4d0884fe0f6a98fe118ce6faa353
• https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/commit/9438266d6a7ded688c8bc7c4ba506da17f44a17b
• https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri
• https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/releases/tag/v2.4.3
• https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/releases/tag/v3.1.4
• https://github.com/fastify/fast-uri/releases/tag/v4.1.1
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-16221
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-16221
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-16221
• https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/16xxx/CVE-2026-16221.json