Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
go-chi/chi
master @ 3b50c7c
5
Fixes
2
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
0.0%
Coverage
Highlights
IP Address Spoofing: 2 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
middleware: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.
1 high-severity fix in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Open Redirect: Inadequate sanitization of leading slashes and backslashes in RedirectSlashes middleware allows attackers to craft protocol-relative URLs, resulting in open redirects to external malicious domains. This is tracked under CVE-2025-69725.
IP Address Spoofing: Unreliable parsing of trust headers in middlewares like RealIP and legacy ClientIP allows attackers to spoof their source IP address. Fixes required introducing robust parsing algorithms with zone-stripping, IPv4-unmapping, and strict IP syntax validation.
Timing Attack: The use of standard non-constant-time string comparisons for cryptographic or authentication secrets exposes the application to timing-based side-channel attacks, allowing attackers to progressively guess valid credentials.