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Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-44572

CVE-2026-44572

Low
Open
TLP:CLEAR

Next.js: Middleware / Proxy redirects can be cache-poisoned

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Critical Infrastructure DDoS

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Description

Next.js is a React framework for building full-stack web applications. From 12.2.0 to before 15.5.16 and 16.2.5, an external client could send a x-nextjs-data header on a normal request to a path handled by middleware that returns a redirect. When that happened, the middleware/proxy could treat the request as a data request and replace the standard Location redirect header with the internal x-nextjs-redirect header. Browsers do not follow x-nextjs-redirect, so the response became an unusable redirect for normal clients. If the application was deployed behind a CDN or reverse proxy that caches 3xx responses without varying on this header, a single attacker request could poison the cached redirect response for the affected path. Subsequent visitors could then receive a cached redirect response without a Location header, causing a denial of service for that redirect path until the cache entry expired or was purged. This vulnerability is fixed in 15.5.16 and 16.2.5.

Details

CVSS Score
3.7
EPSS Score
0.28%

20.7th percentile

CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Confidence
90%
Published
May 13, 2026
Last Modified
May 14, 2026
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