CVSS v3
7.5
HIGH
EPSS Score
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exploit probability
CISA KEV
No
known exploited
Exploitation
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SSVC status
Impact: fast-uri versions from 2.3.1 through 4.1.0 (including the 3.x line up to 3.1.3 and the 2.x line up to 2.4.2) do not treat a literal backslash character (U+005C) as an authority delimiter. Node's native WHATWG URL parser, used by fetch, undici, and Node's http and https clients, normalizes the backslash to a forward slash for special schemes such as http, https, ws, wss, ftp, and file. As a result, the two parsers extract different hosts from the same input string. Applications that use f
Impact: fast-uri versions from 2.3.1 through 4.1.0 (including the 3.x line up to 3.1.3 and the 2.x line up to 2.4.2) do not treat a literal backslash character (U+005C) as an authority delimiter. Node's native WHATWG URL parser, used by fetch, undici, and Node's http and https clients, normalizes the backslash to a forward slash for special schemes such as http, https, ws, wss, ftp, and file. As a result, the two parsers extract different hosts from the same input string. Applications that use f
Active exploitation of CVE-2026-16221 has not been confirmed. The EPSS score is N/A%, indicating the estimated probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
CVE-2026-16221 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (HIGH severity), with vector string 3.1.
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