Update dependency hono to v4.10.3 [SECURITY]

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
hono (source)	4.9.6 -> 4.10.3

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

CVE-2025-59139

Summary

A flaw in the bodyLimit middleware could allow bypassing the configured request body size limit when conflicting HTTP headers were present.

Details

The middleware previously prioritized the Content-Length header even when a Transfer-Encoding: chunked header was also included. According to the HTTP specification, Content-Length must be ignored in such cases. This discrepancy could allow oversized request bodies to bypass the configured limit.

Most standards-compliant runtimes and reverse proxies may reject such malformed requests with 400 Bad Request, so the practical impact depends on the runtime and deployment environment.

Impact

If body size limits are used as a safeguard against large or malicious requests, this flaw could allow attackers to send oversized request bodies. The primary risk is denial of service (DoS) due to excessive memory or CPU consumption when handling very large requests.

Resolution

The implementation has been updated to align with the HTTP specification, ensuring that Transfer-Encoding takes precedence over Content-Length. The issue is fixed in Hono v4.9.7, and all users should upgrade immediately.

CVE-2025-62610

Improper Authorization in Hono (JWT Audience Validation)

Hono’s JWT authentication middleware did not validate the aud (Audience) claim by default. As a result, applications using the middleware without an explicit audience check could accept tokens intended for other audiences, leading to potential cross-service access (token mix-up).

The issue is addressed by adding a new verification.aud configuration option to allow RFC 7519–compliant audience validation. This change is classified as a security hardening improvement, but the lack of validation can still be considered a vulnerability in deployments that rely on default JWT verification.

Recommended secure configuration

You can enable RFC 7519–compliant audience validation using the new verification.aud option:

import { Hono } from 'hono'
import { jwt } from 'hono/jwt'

const app = new Hono()

app.use(
  '/api/*',
  jwt({
    secret: 'my-secret',
    verification: {
      // Require this API to only accept tokens with aud = 'service-a'
      aud: 'service-a',
    },
  })
)

Below is the original description by the reporter. For security reasons, it does not include PoC reproduction steps, as the vulnerability can be clearly understood from the technical description.

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The original description by the reporter

Summary

Hono’s JWT Auth Middleware does not provide a built-in aud (Audience) verification option, which can cause confused-deputy / token-mix-up issues: an API may accept a valid token that was issued for a different audience (e.g., another service) when multiple services share the same issuer/keys. This can lead to unintended cross-service access. Hono’s docs list verification options for iss/nbf/iat/exp only, with no aud support; RFC 7519 requires that when an aud claim is present, tokens MUST be rejected unless the processing party identifies itself in that claim.

Note: This problem likely exists in the JWK/JWKS-based middleware as well (e.g., jwk / verifyWithJwks)

Details

• The middleware’s verifyOptions enumerate only iss, nbf, iat, and exp; there is no aud option. The same omission appears in the JWT Helper’s “Payload Validation” list. Developers relying on the middleware for complete standards-aligned validation therefore won’t check audience by default.
• Standards requirement: RFC 7519 §4.1.3 states that each principal intended to process the JWT MUST identify itself with a value in the aud claim; if it does not, the JWT MUST be rejected (when aud is present). Lack of a first-class aud check increases the risk that tokens issued for Service B are accepted by Service A.
• Real-world effect: In deployments with a single IdP/JWKS and shared keys across multiple services, a token minted for one audience can be mistakenly accepted by another audience unless developers implement a custom audience check.
  • For example, with Google Identity (OIDC), iss is always https://accounts.google.com (shared across apps), but aud differs per application because it is that app’s OAuth client ID; therefore, an attacker can host a separate service that supports “Sign in with Google,” obtain a valid ID token (JWT) for the victim user, and—if your API does not verify aud—use that token to access your API with the victim’s privileges.

Impact

Type: Authentication/authorization weakness via token mix-up (confused-deputy).

Who is impacted: Any Hono user who:

• shares an issuer/keys across multiple services (common with a single IdP/JWKS)
• distinguishes tokens by intended recipient using aud.

What can happen:

• Cross-service access: A token for Service B may be accepted by Service A.
• Boundary erosion: ID tokens and access tokens, or separate API audiences, can be inadvertently intermixed.
  • This may causes unauthorized invocation of sensitive endpoints.

Recommended remediation:

1. Add verifyOptions.aud (string | string[] | RegExp) to the middleware and enforce RFC 7519 semantics: In verify method, if aud is present and does not match with specified audiences, reject.
2. Ensure equivalent aud handling exists in the JWK/JWKS flow (jwk middleware / verifyWithJwks) so users of external IdPs can enforce audience consistently.

GHSA-q7jf-gf43-6x6p

Summary

A flaw in the CORS middleware allowed request Vary headers to be reflected into the response, enabling attacker-controlled Vary values and potentially affecting cache behavior.

Details

The middleware previously copied the Vary header from the request when origin was not set to "*". Since Vary is a response header that should only be managed by the server, this could allow an attacker to influence caching behavior or cause inconsistent CORS handling.

Most environments will see impact only when shared caches or proxies rely on the Vary header. The practical effect varies by configuration.

Impact

May cause cache key pollution and inconsistent CORS enforcement in certain setups. No direct confidentiality, integrity, or availability impact in default configurations.

Resolution

Update to the latest patched release. The CORS middleware has been corrected to handle Vary exclusively as a response header.

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Release Notes

honojs/hono (hono)

v4.10.3

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Securiy Fix

A security issue in the CORS middleware has been fixed. In some cases, a request header could affect the Vary response header. Please update to the latest version if you are using the CORS middleware.

What's Changed

• fix(aws-lambda): serve microsoft office files as binary in lambda handler by @​matthiasfeist in #​4469
• fix(request-id): validation accepts = by @​ryuapp in #​4478
• refactor(jwt): reduce the size of the code generated by minification by @​usualoma in #​4480

New Contributors

• @​matthiasfeist made their first contribution in #​4469

Full Changelog: honojs/hono@v4.10.2...v4.10.3

v4.10.2

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v4.10.1

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What's Changed

• fix(types): cannot .use non-return mw from createMiddleware by @​NamesMT in #​4465

Full Changelog: honojs/hono@v4.10.0...v4.10.1

v4.10.0

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Release Notes

Hono v4.10.0 is now available!

This release brings improved TypeScript support and new utilities.

The main highlight is the enhanced middleware type definitions that solve a long-standing issue with type safety for RPC clients.

Middleware Type Improvements

Imagine the following app:

import { Hono } from 'hono'

const app = new Hono()

const routes = app.get(
  '/',
  (c) => {
    return c.json({ errorMessage: 'Error!' }, 500)
  },
  (c) => {
    return c.json({ message: 'Success!' }, 200)
  }
)

The client with RPC:

import { hc } from 'hono/client'

const client = hc<typeof routes>('/')

const res = await client.index.$get()

if (res.status === 500) {
}

if (res.status === 200) {
}

Previously, it couldn't infer the responses from middleware, so a type error was thrown.

Now the responses are correctly typed.

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This was a long-standing issue and we were thinking it was super difficult to resolve it. But now come true.

Thank you for the great work @​slawekkolodziej!

cloneRawRequest Utility

The new cloneRawRequest utility allows you to clone the raw Request object after it has been consumed by validators or middleware.

import { cloneRawRequest } from 'hono/request'

app.post('/api', async (c) => {
  const body = await c.req.json()

  // Clone the consumed request
  const clonedRequest = cloneRawRequest(c.req)
  await externalLibrary.process(clonedRequest)
})

Thanks @​kamaal111!

New features

• feat(types): passing middleware types #​4393
• feat(ssg): add default plugin that defines the recommended behavior #​4394
• feat(request): add cloneRawRequest utility for request cloning #​4382

All changes

• feat(types): passing middleware types by @​slawekkolodziej in #​4393
• feat(ssg): add default plugin that defines the recommended behavior by @​3w36zj6 in #​4394
• feat(request): add cloneRawRequest utility for request cloning by @​kamaal111 in #​4382
• fix(proxy): Correct hop-by-hop header handling per RFC 9110 by @​sugar-cat7 in #​4459

New Contributors

• @​slawekkolodziej made their first contribution in #​4393
• @​kamaal111 made their first contribution in #​4382

Full Changelog: honojs/hono@v4.9.12...v4.10.0

v4.9.12

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What's Changed

• refactor: internal structure of PreparedRegExpRouter for optimization and added tests by @​usualoma in #​4456
• refactor: use protected methods instead of computed properties to allow tree shaking by @​usualoma in #​4458

Full Changelog: honojs/hono@v4.9.11...v4.9.12

v4.9.11

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What's Changed

• fix(types): fix 4.9.8 regression by @​aadito123 in #​4448
• feat(reg-exp-router): Introduced PreparedRegExpRouter by @​usualoma in #​1796

New Contributors

• @​aadito123 made their first contribution in #​4448

Full Changelog: honojs/hono@v4.9.10...v4.9.11

v4.9.10

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What's Changed

• fix(context): Fix #​4427 type regression by removing non-public export by @​aantthony in #​4433
• fix(aws-lambda): sanitize non-ASCII header values to prevent ByteString errors by @​yusukebe in #​4437

Full Changelog: honojs/hono@v4.9.9...v4.9.10

v4.9.9

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What's Changed

• fix(service-worker): Update service-worker fire() to accept generic variants of Hono app instance by @​harmony7 in #​4420
• fix(service-worker): correct generics for handle by @​yusukebe in #​4421
• feat(helper/route): enable to get route path at specific index by @​usualoma in #​4423

New Contributors

• @​harmony7 made their first contribution in #​4420

Full Changelog: honojs/hono@v4.9.8...v4.9.9

v4.9.8

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What's Changed

• fix(types): JSONParsed infer unknown values by @​BarryThePenguin in #​4405
• refactor(types): remove SimplifyDeepArray from json types by @​BarryThePenguin in #​4406
• refactor(types): fix the type definitions in hono-base by @​yusukebe in #​4407
• fix(request): return empty string for empty catch-all param by @​amitksingh0880 in #​4395

New Contributors

• @​amitksingh0880 made their first contribution in #​4395

Full Changelog: honojs/hono@v4.9.7...v4.9.8

v4.9.7

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Security

• Fixed an issue in the bodyLimit middleware where the body size limit could be bypassed when both Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding headers were present. If you are using this middleware, please update immediately. Security Advisory

What's Changed

• fix(client): Fix parseResponse not parsing json in react native by @​lr0pb in #​4399
• chore: add .tool-versions file by @​3w36zj6 in #​4397
• chore: update bun install commands to use --frozen-lockfile by @​3w36zj6 in #​4398
• test(jwk): Add tests of JWK token verification by @​buckett in #​4402

New Contributors

• @​lr0pb made their first contribution in #​4399
• @​buckett made their first contribution in #​4402

Full Changelog: honojs/hono@v4.9.6...v4.9.7

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