CVE-2022-41919 : Exploit Details and Defense Strategies

Fastify, a web framework known for its minimal overhead and plugin architecture, is susceptible to a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack due to an issue with incorrect

Content-Type

. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to bypass

Pre-Flight

checking of

fetch

requests, potentially leading to a CSRF attack. The issue has been addressed in version 4.10.2 and 3.29.4. To mitigate, implement Cross-Site Request Forgery protection using

@fastify/csrf

.