# CVE-2025-68470: React Router has unexpected external redirect via untrusted paths

- Also known as: GHSA-9JCX-V3WJ-WH4M
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.9.6, 6.30.2
- Published: 2026-01-10 · Updated: 2026-01-12

## Affected

- remix-run react-router: from 7.0.0, fixed in 7.9.6; from 6.0.0, fixed in 6.30.2
- react-router (npm): from 6.0.0, fixed in 6.30.2
- react-router (npm): from 7.0.0, fixed in 7.9.6

## Description

React Router is a router for React. In versions 6.0.0 through 6.30.1 and 7.0.0 through 7.9.5, an attacker-supplied path can be crafted so that when a React Router application navigates to it via navigate(), <Link>, or redirect(), the app performs a navigation/redirect to an external URL. This is only an issue if you are passing untrusted content into navigation paths in your application code. This issue has been patched in versions 6.30.2 and 7.9.6.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on remix-run react-router, react-router, upgrade to a fixed version (7.9.6, 6.30.2) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/security/advisories/GHSA-9jcx-v3wj-wh4m

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