# CVE-2025-66457: Elysia affected by arbitrary code injection through cookie config

- Also known as: GHSA-8VCH-M3F4-Q8JF
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.4.18
- Published: 2025-12-09 · Updated: 2025-12-12

## Affected

- elysiajs elysia: fixed in 1.4.18
- elysia (npm): fixed in 1.4.18

## Description

Elysia is a Typescript framework for request validation, type inference, OpenAPI documentation and client-server communication. Versions 1.4.17 and below are subject to arbitrary code execution from cookie config. When dynamic cookies are enabled (e.g. there an existing cookie schema), the cookie config is injected into the compiled route without first being sanitised. Availability of this exploit is generally low, but when combined with GHSA-hxj9-33pp-j2cc, it allows for a full RCE chain. An attack requires write access to either the Elysia app's source code (in which case the vulnerability is meaningless) or write access to the cookie config (perhaps where it is assumed to be provisioned by the environment). This issue is fixed in version 1.4.18.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on elysiajs elysia, elysia, upgrade to a fixed version (1.4.18) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/elysiajs/elysia/security/advisories/GHSA-8vch-m3f4-q8jf
- https://github.com/elysiajs/elysia/security/advisories/GHSA-hxj9-33pp-j2cc
- https://github.com/elysiajs/elysia/pull/1564
- https://github.com/elysiajs/elysia/commit/26935bf76ebc43b4a43d48b173fc853de43bb51e
- https://github.com/elysiajs/elysia/commit/3af978663e437dccc6c1a2a3aff4b74e1574849e

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