CVE-2026-92081: fastify vulnerable to Denial of Service via unhandled exception on HTTP/2 trailer responses
fastify crashes with an uncaught ERR_HTTP2_INVALID_CONNECTION_HEADERS exception when a route that registers a response trailer via reply.trailer() is served over HTTP/2. Fastify unconditionally adds the Transfer-Encoding: chunked header when a trailer is set, which is forbidden on HTTP/2, so Node.js throws while serializing the response headers. The exception is not caught and becomes an uncaughtException, terminating the Node.js process.
One unauthenticated HTTP/2 request to any route that uses trailers is enough to crash the server, dropping all in-flight requests, and the request can be repeated to keep the process down. Applications are affected only when HTTP/2 is enabled (http2: true) and at least one route registers a trailer. HTTP/1.x responses are not affected.
References
- cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-4mh8-r7rc-xpvc
- github.com/fastify/fastify/commit/ad06a4c3fe8a944a904f38068249b18b8f552e90
- github.com/fastify/fastify/issues/6574
- github.com/fastify/fastify/releases/tag/v5.12.5
- github.com/fastify/fastify/security/advisories/GHSA-4mh8-r7rc-xpvc
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-92081
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