CVE-2026-9678
## Impact Undici's cache interceptor incorrectly classifies some responses as cacheable when the upstream `Cache-Control` header uses whitespace-padded qualified `private` or `no-cache` field names such as `private=" authorization"` or `no-cache="\tauthorization"`. The parser preserves the surrounding whitespace, so later comparisons against the literal `authorization` field name fail and the response is stored. In shared-cache mode, this allows a response containing one user's authenticated data to be served from cache to a subsequent caller, including an unauthenticated caller, when both requests resolve to the same cache key. Affected applications are those that explicitly enable the cache interceptor (`interceptors.cache()`) in shared mode, forward `Authorization` headers upstream, and receive cacheable responses with non-canonical qualified `private` or `no-cache` directives. ## Patches Upgrade to undici v7.28.0 or v8.5.0. ## Workarounds If upgrade is not immediately possible, disable shared-cache mode for traffic that includes `Authorization` headers, avoid caching responses to authenticated requests, or add `Vary: Authorization` upstream.
Properties
- severity
- medium
- summary
- undici vulnerable to cross-user information disclosure via shared cache whitespace bypass
- epss_score
- 0.00388
- cvss_score
- 5.9
- ghsa_published
- 2026-06-18T14:28:13Z
- source_url
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pr7r-676h-xcf6
- ghsa_updated
- 2026-06-24T14:11:34Z
- ghsa_id
- GHSA-pr7r-676h-xcf6
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-9678
- cvss_vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- signal_observed_at
- 2026-09-11T17:55:57+00:00
- is_ghsa_only
- false
- epss_percentile
- 0.326
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