Next.js: Cache confusion of response bodies for requests with bodies containing invalid UTF-8 byte sequences

## Impact A server-side `fetch` with a request body may return a cached **response** body from a different request to the same URL but different body. Confidential data in the `POST`'s **response** body would then leak to unauthorized requests. Though the request itself will not be deduped. This is only an issue when receiving request bodies with a content type charset other than UTF-8. For example, the UTF-16 byte sequences for `삃삃` and `섄섄` in the request body would share the same cache. ## Workarounds If you cannot upgrade, consider only making fetch requests with UTF-8 bodies (default in Next.js). Applications using Pages Router are not vulnerable.

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22 Jul 2026 23:06:12 UTC

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10 Sep 2026 03:50:51 UTC

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24 Oct 2026 13:17:17 UTC

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