React Router: Open redirect via backslash in <Link> and useNavigate (CVE-2025-68470 bypass)
Priority LOW 29CWE-601Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Active
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Spoofing
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 1 fixed, 49 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-601.
Summary
React Router is a router for React. Versions 6.0.0 through 7.17.0 are vulnerable to Open Redirtect through use of backslashes in <Link> and useNavigate. This issue is a follow up to CVE-2025-68470 and has been fixed in version 7.18.0.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00319 24th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial react-router (remix-run): 7.18.0react-router (npm): 7.18.0Red Hat: 2 advisoriesRed Hat: 1 fixed, 49 without a fix
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| remix-run | react-router | 6.0.0 to before 7.18.0 | 7.18.0 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | react-router (npm) | 6.0.0 to before 7.18.0 | 7.18.0 | Patch available | GHSA-wrjc-x8rr-h8h6 |
- react-router Vendorremix-run Affected 6.0.0 to before 7.18.0 Fixed in 7.18.0 Patch available CNA
- react-router (npm) Vendor— Affected 6.0.0 to before 7.18.0 Fixed in 7.18.0 Patch available GHSA-wrjc-x8rr-h8h6
Remediation
- Fix · CNA react-router (remix-run) Fixed in 7.18.0
- Fix · GHSA-wrjc-x8rr-h8h6 react-router (npm) Fixed in 7.18.0 Advisory →
Red Hat 2 advisories
- RHSA-2026:48799 Released 2026-07-30 · Red Hat rating ModerateRed Hat Hardened Images RPMs Security Update
- Red Hat Hardened Images prometheus3.5-3.5.5-0.6.hum1@aarch64, prometheus3.5-3.5.5-0.6.hum1@src, prometheus3.5-3.5.5-0.6.hum1@x86_64
- RHSA-2026:48780 Released 2026-07-30 · Red Hat rating ModerateRed Hat Hardened Images RPMs Security Update
- Red Hat Hardened Images prometheus3.13-3.13.1-0.5.hum1@aarch64, prometheus3.13-3.13.1-0.5.hum1@src, prometheus3.13-3.13.1-0.5.hum1@x86_64
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Cryostat 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Exploit Intelligence | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Gatekeeper 3 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Migration Toolkit for Applications 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Migration Toolkit for Containers | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Migration Toolkit for Virtualization | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Network Observability Operator | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Node HealthCheck Operator | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| OpenShift Lightspeed | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| OpenShift Pipelines | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| OpenShift Service Mesh 3 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Build of Keycloak | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Build of Podman Desktop | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 5 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Connectivity Link 1 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Data Grid 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Developer Hub 1 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Discovery 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Edge Manager 1 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Hardened Images | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift GitOps | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Quay 3 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 3 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Secrets Management Console for Red Hat OpenShift | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Self-service automation portal 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Hardened Images | Fixed | RHSA-2026:48780, RHSA-2026:48799 |
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-53669
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-wrjc-x8rr-h8h6
- 2026-10-16 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-27 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-30 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Patch 2
More remix-run React-router vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-40200 React Router: Unauthenticated Denial of Service via Inefficient Route Matching CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-30645 React Router vulnerable to DoS via unbounded path expansion in __manifest endpoint CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-26400 React Router vulnerable to Denial of Service via reflected user input in single-fetch CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-17723 React Router vulnerable to XSS via Open Redirects CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.0
- TI-2026-17585 React Router SSR XSS in ScrollRestoration CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2
- TI-2026-30532 Deserialization of untrusted data in remix-run react-router CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
Sources
- CVE-2026-53669 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-53669 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-wrjc-x8rr-h8h6 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-53669 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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