GHSA-g5m6-hxpp-fc49HighCVSS 7.5

Sending a GET or HEAD request with a body crashes SvelteKit

Published
January 24, 2024
Last Modified
October 18, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2024-23641 →

📋 Description

Summary

In SvelteKit 2 sending a GET request with a body eg {} to a SvelteKit app in preview or with adapter-node throws Request with GET/HEAD method cannot have body. and crashes the app.

node:internal/deps/undici/undici:6066
          throw new TypeError("Request with GET/HEAD method cannot have body.");
                ^

TypeError: Request with GET/HEAD method cannot have body.
    at new Request (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:6066:17)
    at getRequest (file:///C:/Users/admin/Desktop/reproduction/node_modules/@sveltejs/kit/src/exports/node/index.js:107:9)
    at file:///C:/Users/admin/Desktop/reproduction/node_modules/@sveltejs/kit/src/exports/vite/preview/index.js:181:26
    at call (file:///C:/Users/admin/Desktop/reproduction/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-9A4-l-43.js:44795:7)
    at next (file:///C:/Users/admin/Desktop/reproduction/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-9A4-l-43.js:44739:5)
    at file:///C:/Users/admin/Desktop/reproduction/node_modules/@sveltejs/kit/src/exports/vite/preview/index.js:172:6
    at call (file:///C:/Users/admin/Desktop/reproduction/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-9A4-l-43.js:44795:7)
    at next (file:///C:/Users/admin/Desktop/reproduction/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-9A4-l-43.js:44739:5)
    at file:///C:/Users/admin/Desktop/reproduction/node_modules/@sveltejs/kit/src/exports/vite/preview/index.js:211:27
    at call (file:///C:/Users/admin/Desktop/reproduction/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-9A4-l-43.js:44795:7)

Node.js v20.11.0

TRACE requests will also cause the app to crash. Prerendered pages and SvelteKit 1 apps are not affected.

PoC

First do a fresh install of SvelteKit 2 with the example app. Typescript.

  1. npm run build
  2. npm run preview
  3. Go to http://localhost:4173 (works)
  4. curl -X GET -d "{}" http://localhost:4173/bye
  5. Application crashes and http://localhost:4173 is down

Impact

Denial of Service for apps using adapter-node

🎯 Affected products4

  • npm/@sveltejs/kit:>= 2.0.0, < 2.4.3
  • npm/@sveltejs/adapter-node:>= 2.0.0, < 2.1.2
  • npm/@sveltejs/adapter-node:>= 3.0.0, < 3.0.3
  • npm/@sveltejs/adapter-node:= 4.0.0

🔗 References (4)