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JLSEC-2026-617 json

Open redirect in the HTTP.jl static file server canonical redirects

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Summary

### Description

The static file server's canonical 301 redirects (index-file strip, directory trailing-slash add, and file trailing-slash strip) built the `Location` header verbatim from the un-normalized request target. Request-target validation only requires a leading `/`, has no CTL bytes, and the `..` check plus segment decoding drop empty segments, so a target like `//evil.example/index.html` or `/\evil.example/` survived validation and produced a `Location` such as `//evil.example/` — a scheme-relative network-path reference (RFC 3986 §4.2) that browsers resolve to a foreign authority.

### Impact

A crafted request to the file server could produce a redirect to an attacker-controlled host (open redirect).

### Patches

Fixed in HTTP.jl v2.4.0. A new `_sanitize_redirect_location` collapses any leading run of `/` or `\` separators down to a single `/`, re-rooting the `Location` at the server's own origin so it can never carry an authority component (backslashes are treated as separators because browsers normalize `\` to `/`). Every canonical-redirect branch routes its `Location` through the sanitizer; single-rooted local paths are unchanged.

Reported to the JuliaLang security team through Anthropic's Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure program.

Patch / fix

  • julia HTTP 2.4.0

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Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia HTTP
<2.4.0
2.4.0

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