Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Next.js issued a security announcement and fixed the middleware permission bypass vulnerability (CVE-2025-29927). Because Next.js lacks effective verification of the source of the x-middleware-subrequest header, when configuring to use middleware for authentication and authorization, an unauthenticated attacker can bypass system permission controls by manipulating the x-middleware-subrequest header to access…
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Researchers raise alarm about critical Next.js vulnerability
Researchers warn that attackers could exploit a recently discovered critical vulnerability in the open-source JavaScript framework Next.js to bypass authorization in middleware and gain access to targeted systems. Vercel, the San Francisco-based company that created and maintains Next.js, released a patch for CVE-2025-29927 in Next.js 15.2.3 on March 18 and published a security advisory on…