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🛡️ CVE-2026-44575 — next

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-288 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Next.js has a Middleware / Proxy bypass in App Router applications via segment-prefetch routes

Impact

App Router applications that rely on middleware or proxy-based checks for authorization can allow unauthorized access through transport-specific route variants used for segment prefetching. In affected configurations, specially crafted .rsc and segment-prefetch URLs can resolve to the same page without being matched by the intended middleware rule, which can allow protected content to be reached without the expected authorization check.

Fix

We now include App Router transport variants when generating middleware matchers, so middleware protections are applied consistently to those requests as well as to the normal page URL.

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade immediately, enforce authorization in the underlying route or page logic instead of relying solely on middleware.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-44575 is classified as CWE-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path. A secondary route into the application skips the authentication that the primary route enforces.

Affected software

CVE-2026-44575 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • next
  • next.js (from 16.0.0 up to 16.2.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 11 May 2026 and last revised on 14 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

next has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path) in other software:

CVE-2026-44575 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-288
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-11
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-05-14
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
next — —
next.js 16.0.0 16.2.5

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