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Medium · 5.4 Public exploit CVE-2026-66752 EUVD-2026-49881GHSA-5hc2-r3jq-vc45

tiny-http 0.12.0 HTTP Request Smuggling via Transfer-Encoding Handling

Published Jul 28, 2026 · Updated Aug 14, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

tiny-http through 0.12.0 contains an HTTP request smuggling vulnerability that allows remote attackers to desynchronize request framing by sending a Transfer-Encoding header with any value, including non-chunked codings, which causes the library to unconditionally apply chunk-decoding and discard Content-Length. Attackers can exploit the discrepancy between tiny_http's improper Transfer-Encoding parsing and a correctly-implemented front-end proxy to produce two distinct interpretations of a single byte stream, enabling request smuggling, and can additionally send non-chunked bodies with non-chunked Transfer-Encoding values to cause failed body reads that tie up connections and consume worker threads without signaling errors to clients.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
tiny-http tiny-http ≤ 0.12.0 —

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 rust-tiny-http No fix yet —
Debian 13 rust-tiny-http No fix yet —
Debian 12 rust-tiny-http No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 rust-tiny-http No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS rust-tiny-http No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS rust-tiny-http No fix yet —

Public exploits

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GitHub 1 repository

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