GHSA-5339-hvwr-7582
Unhead Vulnerable to Bypass of URI Scheme Sanitization in makeTagSafe via Case-Sensitivity
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
The `link.href` check in `makeTagSafe` (safe.ts, line 68-71) uses `String.includes()`, which is case-sensitive:
```typescript
if (key === 'href') {
if (val.includes('javascript:') || val.includes('data:')) {
return
}
next[key] = val
}
```
Browsers treat URI schemes case-insensitively. `DATA:text/css,...` is the same as `data:text/css,...` to the browser, but `'DATA:...'.includes('data:')` returns `false`.
### PoC
```javascript
useHeadSafe({
link: [{
rel: 'stylesheet',
href: 'DATA:text/css,body{display:none}'
}]
})
```
SSR output:
```html
<link rel="stylesheet" href="DATA:text/css,body{display:none}">
```
The browser loads this as a CSS stylesheet. An attacker can inject arbitrary CSS for UI redressing or data exfiltration via CSS attribute selectors with background-image callbacks.
Any case variation works: `DATA:`, `Data:`, `dAtA:`, `JAVASCRIPT:`, etc.
## Suggested fix
```typescript
if (key === 'href') {
const lower = val.toLowerCase()
if (lower.includes('javascript:') || lower.includes('data:')) {
return
}
next[key] = val
}
```
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.