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Critical · 9.2 CVE-2026-69204 EUVD-2026-79025GHSA-8h4c-x2wg-6xp8

Http4s: Ember accepts Transfer-Encoding combined with Content-Length (CL.TE request smuggling)

Published Sep 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 15, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Http4s is a Scala interface for HTTP services. Prior to 0.23.35 and 1.0.0-M47, Ember HTTP/1.1 does not reject messages containing both Transfer-Encoding and Content-Length, so an intermediary and Ember can select different body framing rules. When ember-server is behind a keep-alive intermediary that forwards both headers and frames by Content-Length, an unauthenticated attacker can smuggle a second request, bypass intermediary access controls, poison caches, or cause a victim request to be joined to an attacker-controlled prefix. The shared response parser can also desynchronize an ember-client connection when a malicious or compromised upstream sends both headers. This issue is fixed in versions 0.23.35 and 1.0.0-M47.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
http4s http4s < 0.23.35, >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M47 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.12 < 0.23.35 0.23.35 GHSA-8h4c-x2wg-6xp8
Maven org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.13 < 0.23.35 0.23.35 GHSA-8h4c-x2wg-6xp8
Maven org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.13 >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M47 1.0.0-M47 GHSA-8h4c-x2wg-6xp8
Maven org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_3 < 0.23.35 0.23.35 GHSA-8h4c-x2wg-6xp8
Maven org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_3 >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M47 1.0.0-M47 GHSA-8h4c-x2wg-6xp8

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