Next.js Addresses Critical AVIF and Windows-Based RCE Vulnerabilities
Next.js has addressed two critical vulnerabilities enabling unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE), one via malicious AVIF images and another through a Windows path traversal flaw, with patches released for affected versions. The Windows-specific flaw (CVE-2026-75604, CVSS 9.0) requires immediate upgrades for Windows-hosted applications, while the AVIF issue involves a heap buffer overflow in libheif affecting image processing.
Credit: Hacktron Vercel has released security patches for two critical-severity vulnerabilities in the Next.js web framework, both of which allow unauthenticated remote code execution, one exploitable via specially crafted AVIF image files and the other through a path traversal flaw affecting servers that use a Windows filesystem.
The Windows path traversal, tracked as CVE-2026-75604&
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