Bug 2477168 (CVE-2026-44572) - CVE-2026-44572 next.js: Next.js: Denial of Service due to improper handling of x-nextjs-data header with redirects
Summary: CVE-2026-44572 next.js: Next.js: Denial of Service due to improper handling o...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-44572
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2481136 2481137 2481138 2481139 2481134 2481135
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Reported: 2026-05-13 17:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-25 07:47 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-13 17:02:06 UTC
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.


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