CVE-2026-44572
published 2026-05-13CVE-2026-44572: 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…
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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.
Affected
14 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | thunderbird | — | — |
| next | next | — | — |
| next | next | >= 12.2.0 < 15.5.16 | 15.5.16 |
| next | next | >= 16.0.0 < 16.2.5 | 16.2.5 |
| rhelai3 | bootc-cuda-rhel9 | — | — |
| rhelai3 | bootc-gaudi-rhel9 | — | — |
| rhelai3 | bootc-rocm-rhel9 | — | — |
| rhelai3 | disk-image-cuda-rhel9 | — | — |
| rhtas | rekor-search-ui-rhel9 | — | — |
| vercel | next.js | — | — |
| vercel | next.js | — | — |
| vercel | next.js | >= 12.2.0 < 15.5.16 | 15.5.16 |
| vercel | next.js | >= 16.0.0 < 16.2.5 | 16.2.5 |