# CVE-2025-64525: Astro: URL manipulation via unsanitized headers leads to path-based middleware protections bypass, potential SSRF/cache-poisoning, CVE-2025-61925 bypass

- Also known as: GHSA-HR2Q-HP5Q-X767
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 Nuclei template
- Fixed in: 5.15.5
- Published: 2025-11-13 · Updated: 2025-11-13

## Affected

- withastro astro: from 2.16.0, fixed in 5.15.5
- astro (npm): from 2.16.0, fixed in 5.15.5

## Description

Astro is a web framework. In Astro versions 2.16.0 up to but excluding 5.15.5 which utilizeon-demand rendering, request headers `x-forwarded-proto` and `x-forwarded-port` are insecurely used, without sanitization, to build the URL. This has several consequences, the most important of which are: middleware-based protected route bypass (only via `x-forwarded-proto`), DoS via cache poisoning (if a CDN is present), SSRF (only via `x-forwarded-proto`), URL pollution (potential SXSS, if a CDN is present), and WAF bypass. Version 5.15.5 contains a patch.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on withastro astro, astro, upgrade to a fixed version (5.15.5) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/withastro/astro/security/advisories/GHSA-hr2q-hp5q-x767
- https://github.com/withastro/astro/commit/dafbb1ba29912099c4faff1440033edc768af8b4
- https://github.com/withastro/astro/blob/970ac0f51172e1e6bff4440516a851e725ac3097/packages/astro/src/core/app/node.ts#L121
- https://github.com/withastro/astro/blob/970ac0f51172e1e6bff4440516a851e725ac3097/packages/astro/src/core/app/node.ts#L97
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-64525.yaml

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