Suzanne Aldrich (she/her)<p>Critical Next.js Middleware Vulnerability (CVE-2025-29927)</p><p>A major auth bypass vulnerability in Next.js middleware (prior to v14.2.25 / v15.2.3) allows attackers to inject the x-middleware-subrequest header and bypass authorization entirely. Exploitable via simple HTTP requests—no user interaction, no special permissions.</p><p>Patch. Now. Or block the header manually.</p><p>GitHub scored this 9.1 CRITICAL, but the real issue? This flaw exposes a systemic weakness in middleware validation, and some vendors weren’t exactly upfront about the risks.</p><p>Details + POC: <a href="https://zeropath.com/blog/nextjs-middleware-cve-2025-29927-auth-bypass" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">zeropath.com/blog/nextjs-middl</span><span class="invisible">eware-cve-2025-29927-auth-bypass</span></a><br>NVD: <a href="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-29927" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2</span><span class="invisible">025-29927</span></a></p><p>Security theater is easy. Secure defaults and transparency are harder—but essential.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infosec</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AppSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AppSec</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/NextJS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NextJS</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CVE202529927" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CVE202529927</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/middleware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>middleware</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/securityfail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>securityfail</span></a></p>