{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00015052","kind":"vulnerability","title":"Nuxt route rules silently dropped for mixed-case paths, bypassing appMiddleware auth gates (incomplete fix for CVE-2026-53721)","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-hxvh-4h3w-prp9","CVE-2026-71315"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for nuxt, nuxt. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-123b227399b0a4913b42d3be0fa1cb17"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[{"kind":"CVSS","as_of":"2026-08-05T21:05:19.000Z","value":"8.2 high","meaning":"GitHub source severity; exploitability and local consequence require separate evidence.","source_id":"sr-123b227399b0a4913b42d3be0fa1cb17"}],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-123b227399b0a4913b42d3be0fa1cb17","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hxvh-4h3w-prp9","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-hxvh-4h3w-prp9","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-11-03T09:58:09.980Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-123b227399b0a4913b42d3be0fa1cb17"],"technology":"nuxt","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"### Impact\n\nNuxt matches route rules case-insensitively by default (mirroring vue-router's default `sensitive: false` routing). The fix for GHSA-mm7m-92g8-7m47 / CVE-2026-53721 lowercased the *lookup* path before matching route rules, but the route-rule *keys* compiled into the matcher were left verbatim. As a result, any route rule whose key contains an uppercase character (for example `/Admin`, `/Dashboard/**`, or the rules Nuxt derives from PascalCase/camelCase page files such as `pages/Admin.vue`) never matches, because every lookup is folded to lowercase while the key stays mixed-case.\n\nvue-router still serves the page case-insensitively, so the page renders with none of its Nuxt route-rule protections applied. The most serious consequence is an authorization bypass: an `appMiddleware` rule used as an auth gate (`routeRules: { '/Admin/dashboard': { appMiddleware: 'auth' } }`) is dropped, and `/Admin/dashboard`, `/admin/dashboard`, and `/ADMIN/dashboard` all render the protected page (and its SSR-fetched data) to an unauthenticated visitor instead of redirecting to login. The same gap drops Nuxt's other app-side route-rule behaviours for mixed-case keys, including the client re","public_affected_ranges":[">= 4.4.7, < 4.5.1"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-123b227399b0a4913b42d3be0fa1cb17"],"technology":"nuxt","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"### Impact\n\nNuxt matches route rules case-insensitively by default (mirroring vue-router's default `sensitive: false` routing). The fix for GHSA-mm7m-92g8-7m47 / CVE-2026-53721 lowercased the *lookup* path before matching route rules, but the route-rule *keys* compiled into the matcher were left verbatim. As a result, any route rule whose key contains an uppercase character (for example `/Admin`, `/Dashboard/**`, or the rules Nuxt derives from PascalCase/camelCase page files such as `pages/Admin.vue`) never matches, because every lookup is folded to lowercase while the key stays mixed-case.\n\nvue-router still serves the page case-insensitively, so the page renders with none of its Nuxt route-rule protections applied. The most serious consequence is an authorization bypass: an `appMiddleware` rule used as an auth gate (`routeRules: { '/Admin/dashboard': { appMiddleware: 'auth' } }`) is dropped, and `/Admin/dashboard`, `/admin/dashboard`, and `/ADMIN/dashboard` all render the protected page (and its SSR-fetched data) to an unauthenticated visitor instead of redirecting to login. The same gap drops Nuxt's other app-side route-rule behaviours for mixed-case keys, including the client re","public_affected_ranges":[">= 3.21.7, < 3.21.10"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-11-03T10:03:26.540Z","source_updated_at":"2026-08-05T21:05:19.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-08-05T21:05:18.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-11-03T09:58:09.980Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}