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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-31870 EUVD-2026-11275

cpp-httplib Affected by Remote Process Crash via Malformed Content-Length Response Header

Published Mar 11, 2026 · Updated Mar 12, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

cpp-httplib is a C++11 single-file header-only cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library. Prior to 0.37.1, when a cpp-httplib client uses the streaming API (httplib::stream::Get, httplib::stream::Post, etc.), the library calls std::stoull() directly on the Content-Length header value received from the server with no input validation and no exception handling. std::stoull throws std::invalid_argument for non-numeric strings and std::out_of_range for values exceeding ULLONG_MAX. Since nothing catches these exceptions, the C++ runtime calls std::terminate(), which kills the process with SIGABRT. Any server the client connects to — including servers reached via HTTP redirects, third-party APIs, or man-in-the-middle positions can crash the client application with a single HTTP response. No authentication is required. No interaction from the end user is required. The crash is deterministic and immediate. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.37.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
yhirose cpp-httplib < 0.37.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 cpp-httplib 0.41.0+ds-3 —
Debian 13 cpp-httplib No fix yet —
Debian 12 cpp-httplib No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 cpp-httplib No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 cpp-httplib No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS cpp-httplib No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS cpp-httplib No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS cpp-httplib No fix yet —

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