Authkit NextjsApplication · Workos

CVE-2025-64762

CRITICAL · 9.1 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-11-21
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 2.11.1 or later.
See remediation →
100/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
The AuthKit library for Next.js provides convenient helpers for authentication and session management using WorkOS & AuthKit with Next.js. In authkit-nextjs version 2.11.0 and below, authenticated responses do not defensively apply anti-caching headers. In environments where CDN caching is enabled, this can result in session tokens being included in cached responses and subsequently served to multiple users. Next.js applications deployed on Vercel are unaffected unless they manually enable CDN caching by setting cache headers on authenticated paths. Patched in authkit-nextjs 2.11.1, which applies anti-caching headers to all responses behind authentication.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Authkit NextjsApplication
Affected:< 2.11.1

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 2.11.1 or later
Fixed in 2.11.1
Vendor patch github.com →
Recommended fix High confidence

@workos-inc/authkit-nextjs version 2.11.1

  1. Run `npm install @workos-inc/[email protected]` to upgrade to the patched version
  2. Alternatively, run `npm install @workos-inc/authkit-nextjs@latest` to get the latest version
  3. Verify the upgrade by checking the installed version with `npm list @workos-inc/authkit-nextjs`
  4. If using yarn, run `yarn add @workos-inc/[email protected]` or `yarn upgrade @workos-inc/authkit-nextjs@latest`
  5. If using pnpm, run `pnpm add @workos-inc/[email protected]` or `pnpm add @workos-inc/authkit-nextjs@latest`
  6. Test your application to ensure authentication still works correctly after the upgrade

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