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High · 8.7 CVE-2026-69205 EUVD-2026-79190GHSA-9998-894r-fwvr

Http4s: Ember Transfer-Encoding value parsing (TE.CL / TE.0 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’s HeaderP.parse uses a case-sensitive substring test for the Transfer-Encoding value and decodes header bytes with the platform default charset. Values such as Chunked are not recognized, values such as notchunked are incorrectly accepted, and Unicode case folding can turn a Kelvin-sign byte sequence into a match when UTF-8 is used. Intermediaries that apply RFC-compliant token and charset rules can therefore disagree with Ember’s Content-Length or zero-length framing, enabling TE.CL or TE.0 request smuggling, access-control bypass, cross-user request hijacking, and cache poisoning on the server path. Response smuggling through an ember-client gateway requires a malicious or compromised upstream. 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-9998-894r-fwvr
Maven org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.13 < 0.23.35 0.23.35 GHSA-9998-894r-fwvr
Maven org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.13 >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M47 1.0.0-M47 GHSA-9998-894r-fwvr
Maven org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_3 < 0.23.35 0.23.35 GHSA-9998-894r-fwvr
Maven org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_3 >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M47 1.0.0-M47 GHSA-9998-894r-fwvr

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