High severity · published Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2026-9697
undici vulnerable to TLS certificate validation bypass via dropped requestTls in SOCKS5 ProxyAgent
7.4
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Impact:
undici's ProxyAgent silently drops the requestTls option when configured with a SOCKS5 proxy URI (socks5:// or socks://). The target HTTPS connection through the SOCKS5 tunnel falls back to Node's default trust store, ignoring user-configured ca, cert, key, rejectUnauthorized, and servername settings.
Applications that pin to an internal or corporate CA via requestTls.ca will, when their proxy URI is SOCKS5, get the default Mozilla CA bundle as the trust anchor instead. Any cert signed by any publicly-trusted CA for the target hostname is accepted, breaking the intended pin and enabling MITM read and tamper of the HTTPS exchange.
Affected applications are those that use undici's ProxyAgent (or Socks5ProxyAgent directly) with SOCKS5 AND rely on requestTls for TLS scope restriction. The bug was introduced in undici 7.23.0 when SOCKS5 support was added.
Patches:
Upgrade to undici v7.28.0 or v8.5.0.
Workarounds:
No workaround is available within the SOCKS5 path. If a SOCKS5 proxy with TLS scope restriction is required and an upgrade is not yet possible, route the traffic through an HTTP-proxy ProxyAgent instead, where requestTls is honored correctly.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 40% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
UN
undici · undici
7.23.0 before 7.28.0; 8.0.0 before 8.5.0 · source: vendor, NVD
CO
Cluster Observability Operator 1.5.0 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
C4
Cryostat 4 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
C4
Cryostat 4 on RHEL 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
OP
OpenShift Pipelines · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Build of Podman Desktop · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Developer Hub 1.10 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Developer Hub 1.9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Hardened Images · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-9697
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-9697
Vendor Advisory
https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html
Mitigation
https://github.com/nodejs/undici/security/advisories/GHSA-vmh5-mc38-953g
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22380
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22934
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34342
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:35841
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