CVE-2025-64166
MEDIUMmercurius < 16.4.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via Content-Type Header Misinterpretation
Title source: llmDescription
Mercurius is a GraphQL adapter for Fastify. Prior to version 16.4.0, a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was identified. The issue arises from incorrect parsing of the Content-Type header in requests. Specifically, requests with Content-Type values such as application/x-www-form-urlencoded, multipart/form-data, or text/plain could be misinterpreted as application/json. This misinterpretation bypasses the preflight checks performed by the fetch() API, potentially allowing unauthorized actions to be performed on behalf of an authenticated user. This issue has been patched in version 16.4.0.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/mercurius-js/mercurius/security/advisories/GHSA-v66j-6wwf-jc57
Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/mercurius-js/mercurius/pull/1187
Scores
CVSS v3
5.4
EPSS
0.0001
EPSS Percentile
0.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-352
Status
published
Products (2)
mercurius_project/mercurius
< 16.4.0
npm/mercurius
0 - 16.4.0npm
Published
Mar 05, 2026
Tracked Since
Mar 05, 2026