CVE-2026-62985request-filtering-agent: Synchronous throw from createConnection() for literal private-IP hosts bypasses req.on('error'), crashing the Node.js process
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 0.56%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 53% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
request-filtering-agent is an http(s).Agent implementation that blocks requests to Private/Reserved IP addresses. Prior to 3.2.1, RequestFilteringHttpAgent and RequestFilteringHttpsAgent synchronously threw from createConnection when rejecting a literal private-IP host such as 169.254.169.254 or 127.0.0.1. Because Node.js http.request and http.get expect connection failures to be delivered asynchronously, the throw bypassed req.on('error') and became an uncaught exception that could terminate the application process. Hostnames resolved through the asynchronous lookup path were not affected by this error-delivery asymmetry. This issue is fixed in version 3.2.1.
Public exploit
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References tagged exploit1 reference
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 4 days later
· 4 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.56% · top 53% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
- affected < 3.2.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmrequest-filtering-agentGHSA-r3r9-wp5j-pq5g (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://github.com/azu/request-filtering-agent/security/advisories/GHSA-r3r9-wp5j-pq5g (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMexploit
- https://github.com/azu/request-filtering-agent/commit/9d12561064524807fc399158eaa5bd7a40dd8cd0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/azu/request-filtering-agent/releases/tag/v3.2.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-84679 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-r3r9-wp5j-pq5g (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-62985)Record last updated .