CVE-2025-32379
Published: 09 April 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-32379 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Koajs Koa. Its CVSS base score is 5.0 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 45.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-10545
Vulnerability details
Koa is expressive middleware for Node.js using ES2017 async functions. In koa < 2.16.1 and < 3.0.0-alpha.5, passing untrusted user input to ctx.redirect() even after sanitizing it, may execute javascript code on the user who use the app. This issue…
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is patched in 2.16.1 and 3.0.0-alpha.5.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.