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Medium · 6.9 CVE-2026-55614 EUVD-2026-114562

uhttpd vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling via case-sensitive Transfer-Encoding matching

Published Oct 30, 2026 · Updated Nov 6, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

uhttpd is a small HTTP server. In unpatched repository snapshots, `client_parse_header()` in `client.c` lowercases header names but compares the `Transfer-Encoding` value to `chunked` using case-sensitive `strcmp`. A mixed-case transfer-coding token is accepted without enabling `r->transfer_chunked`, despite transfer-coding tokens being case-insensitive. On a keep-alive connection, the `chunked` POST body is left unread and request-shaped body bytes are parsed as another HTTP request, permitting HTTP request smuggling and boundary desynchronization. Commits ae015e099986ceace44975cb69629841a2d58d37 and 6641b050e5f7c7fd9ae92e8e119d6d6dfc6e9837 patch the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
openwrt uhttpd >= 2bef561c890f275ce3b785e6abdb3eda28c96aa8, < ae015e099986ceace44975cb69629841a2d58d37, >= 2bef561c890f275ce3b785e6abdb3eda28c96aa8, < 6641b050e5f7c7fd9ae92e8e119d6d6dfc6e9837 —

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