CVE-2026-88038 PUBLISHED

cookies vulnerable to Set-Cookie attribute injection via unvalidated domain and path options

Assigner: openjs
Reserved: 09.09.2026 Published: 10.09.2026 Updated: 10.09.2026

cookies is a Node.js library for reading and writing HTTP cookies, used by Koa via ctx.cookies. In versions before 0.9.2 the library validates the cookie name and value against character sets that reject the semicolon separator, but the domain and path options are checked only against a permissive RFC 7230 field-content matcher that allows semicolons, and both are written into the Set-Cookie header unescaped. An application that passes untrusted or request-derived data into the domain or path option can therefore inject additional cookie attributes, overriding SameSite, Secure, HttpOnly, or Domain on the cookies the application issues. This is a Set-Cookie attribute injection issue (CWE-74). The issue is fixed in cookies 0.9.2, which validates domain and path against RFC 6265 character sets. As a workaround, keep domain and path application-set rather than derived from untrusted input.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.8

Product Status

Vendor cookies
Product cookies
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 0.9.2 (excl.)
  • Version 0.9.2 is unaffected

Credits

  • UlisesGascon remediation developer
  • blakeembrey remediation reviewer
  • Zelys-DFKH reporter

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-74: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') CWE