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Open redirect in Slashify

  • Disclosed: 05.02.2021
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

The package is an Express middleware that normalises routes by stripping any final slash, redirecting, for example, bookings/latest/ to bookings/latest. However, it does not validate the path it redirects to in any way. In particular, if the path starts with two slashes (or two backslashes, or a slash and a backslash, etc.) it may redirect to a different domain.

Consider the example from the docs. Assume we have run it and started a server on localhost:3000, then visiting localhost:3000///github.com/ redirects you to https://github.com.

Recommendation

This vulnerability is currently un-patched in the slashify package so there is no known safe version of this package. Discontinuing use of slashify is recommended.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package slashify <= 1.0.0 no fix

References

CVSS score 6.1/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-601
Platform
npm
Package
slashify
Disclosed
05.02.2021
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-f4hq-453j-p95f - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: slashify

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This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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