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HighVulnerabilityGHSA-492v-c6pp-mqqvCVE-2026-44574Published 11 May 2026

Next.js has a Middleware / Proxy bypass through dynamic route parameter injection

Affected releases · next

  • 16.x16.0.0 – 16.2.4Fixed in 16.2.5
  • 15.x15.4.0 – 15.5.15Fixed in 15.5.16

On 16.x, the newest line:

npm install next@16.2.5
16.x
  1. Affected

    16.0.0 – 16.2.4

    25 releases

  2. Fixed

    16.2.5 – 16.4.2

    20 releases, latest

15.x
  1. Not affected

    15.0.0 – 15.3.9

    42 releases

  2. Affected

    15.4.0 – 15.5.15

    28 releases

  3. Fixed

    15.5.16 – 15.5.28

    12 releases

423 stable releases of next, oldest to newest, one row per major.

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What happens

Impact

Applications that rely on middleware to protect dynamic routes can be vulnerable to authorization bypass. In affected deployments, specially crafted query parameters can alter the dynamic route value seen by the page while leaving the visible path unchanged, which can allow protected content to be rendered without passing the expected middleware check.

Fix

We now only honor internal route-parameter normalization in trusted routing flows and ignore externally supplied parameter encodings that should never have been accepted from ordinary requests.

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade immediately, enforce authorization in route or page logic instead of relying solely on middleware path matching.