Medium

hono: Lambda@Edge adapter keeps only the last value of a repeated request header, dropping the rest

  • Disclosed: 16.06.2026
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Summary

On AWS Lambda@Edge, CloudFront delivers a request header that appears more than once as several separate entries. The adapter writes each value with Headers.set instead of Headers.append, so every value overwrites the previous one and only the last reaches the application. Repeated request headers such as X-Forwarded-For, Forwarded, and Via are silently truncated to a single value.

Details

A repeated request header carries an ordered list of values. The adapter iterates the list but overwrites on each step, keeping only the final value. Middleware that depends on the full list — for example IP restriction that walks the X-Forwarded-For chain, or auditing based on Forwarded/Via hops — receives incomplete data. The API Gateway adapter already appends repeated values and is not affected.

This issue arises only on Lambda@Edge deployments, for requests that contain the same header more than once.

Impact

Request middleware sees only the last value of a repeated header instead of the full chain. For applications that base access control on the X-Forwarded-For chain, this can weaken or alter that decision; for auditing, hop history is lost. This affects applications deployed on AWS Lambda@Edge that rely on multi-value request headers.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package hono < 4.12.25 4.12.25

References

CVSS score 4.8/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-348
Platform
npm
Package
hono
Disclosed
16.06.2026
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-wgpf-jwqj-8h8p - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: hono

All published vulnerabilities of this package (npm package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (52) in the archive
Total entries
52
First → latest
12.2023 10.2026
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • High 7
  • Medium 41
  • Low 4

Disclosures per year

  1. 2023: 1
  2. 2024: 3
  3. 2025: 4
  4. 2026: 44
Severity:
  1. hono: Lambda@Edge adapter keeps only the last value of a repeated request header, dropping the rest this entry
    Medium · 4.8 CVE-2026-54289 < 4.12.25 4.12.25
  2. High · 8.1 CVE-2025-62610 >= 1.1.0, < 4.10.2 4.10.2
  3. High · 7.5 CVE-2025-58362 >= 4.8.0, < 4.9.6 4.9.6

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