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[GHSA] GHSA-jqff-g426-hqxp (high) — fast-uri vulnerable to host confusion via percent-encoded scheme normalization

medgithub_advisoriesPublished 2026-09-02

GHSA-jqff-g426-hqxp Severity: high CVE: CVE-2026-76172

fast-uri vulnerable to host confusion via percent-encoded scheme normalization

### Impact

`fast-uri` decodes percent-encoded characters in the scheme component with the legacy global `unescape()` and serializes the result back as raw characters, without re-escaping it or validating it as a scheme. A scheme that decodes to characters outside

Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jqff-g426-hqxp