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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-34715 EUVD-2026-18468GHSA-x2w3-23jr-hrpf

ewe Has Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers (HTTP Request/Response Splitting)

Published Apr 2, 2026 · Updated Apr 3, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

ewe is a Gleam web server. Prior to version 3.0.6, the encode_headers function in src/ewe/internal/encoder.gleam directly interpolates response header keys and values into raw HTTP bytes without validating or stripping CRLF (\r\n) sequences. An application that passes user-controlled data into response headers (e.g., setting a Location redirect header from a request parameter) allows an attacker to inject arbitrary HTTP response content, leading to response splitting, cache poisoning, and possible cross-site scripting. Notably, ewe does validate CRLF in incoming request headers via validate_field_value() in the HTTP/1.1 parser — but provides no equivalent protection for outgoing response headers in the encoder. This issue has been patched in version 3.0.6.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
vshakitskiy ewe < 3.0.6 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex ewe < 3.0.6 3.0.6 GHSA-x2w3-23jr-hrpf

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