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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2026-69216 EUVD-2026-79176GHSA-jrpm-956j-96jg

Http4s: Ember chunk parser lenience (TE.TE request smuggling)

Published Sep 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 16, 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 chunk decoder trims the chunk-size token and accepts leading plus or minus signs instead of requiring one or more hexadecimal digits followed by the required CRLF. When an intermediary forwards chunked data without re-encoding and interprets malformed chunk boundaries differently, an unauthenticated attacker can create TE.TE request smuggling that bypasses intermediary controls, poisons caches, or hijacks the request queue. The same response-path leniency can enable response smuggling against an ember-client used as a gateway when the upstream is malicious or compromised. 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-jrpm-956j-96jg
Maven org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.13 < 0.23.35 0.23.35 GHSA-jrpm-956j-96jg
Maven org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.13 >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M47 1.0.0-M47 GHSA-jrpm-956j-96jg
Maven org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_3 < 0.23.35 0.23.35 GHSA-jrpm-956j-96jg
Maven org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_3 >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M47 1.0.0-M47 GHSA-jrpm-956j-96jg

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