Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel Affecting next package, versions >=15.4.0-canary.0 <15.5.16>=16.0.0-beta.0 <16.2.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-NEXT-16638679
  • published11 May 2026
  • disclosed11 May 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 May 2026

NewCVE-2026-44574  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-288  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade next to version 15.5.16, 16.2.5 or higher.

Overview

next is a react framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel via dynamic full-route RSC requests in the deployment adapter. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to protected content by injecting a URL with query params that got misclassified by the onCacheEntryV2 callback as HTML, bypassing expected authorization checks.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1