GHSA-mg2h-6x62-wpwc: Fastify vulnerable to invalid content-type parsing, which could lead to validation bypass

Impact

In applications that specify different validation strategies for different content types, it’s possible to bypass the validation by providing a slightly altered content type such as with different casing or altered whitespacing before ;.

Users using the the following pattern are affected:

fastify.post('/', {
  handler(request, reply) {
    reply.code(200).send(request.body)
  },
  schema: {
    body: {
      content: {
        'application/json': {
          schema: {
            type: 'object',
            properties: {
              'foo': {
                type: 'string',
              }
            },
            required: ['foo']
          }
        },
      }
    }
  }
})

User using the following pattern are not affected:

fastify.post('/', {
  handler(request, reply) {
    reply.code(200).send(request.body)
  },
  schema: {
    body: {
      type: 'object',
      properties: {
        'foo': {
          type: 'string',
        }
      },
      required: ['foo']
    }
  }
})

Patches

Has the problem been patched? What versions should users upgrade to?

Workarounds

Do not specify individual content types in the schema.

References

Are there any links users can visit to find out more?

https://hackerone.com/reports/3087928