CVE-2025-55182 React Server Components RCE POC

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POC for CVE-2025-55182 that works on Next.js 16.0.6

Core idea

Use the $@ deserialization to get a Chunk reference, and put Chunk.prototype.then as the then property of the root object. Then then would be invoked with root object as this/chunk when it is awaited/resolved.

By setting the status to RESOLVED_MODEL, now we can call initializeModelChunk with a fake chunk that is comlpetely in our control. This is particularly useful since itself and its related functions call many methods from the chunk._response object.

Exploit

The target is to trigger the Blob deserialization, which calls response._formData.get with payload from response._prefix and return the result directly. So all we need is to set response._formData.get to Function so the returned result would be a function with attacker controlled code, then put that to then again so it would be executed.