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Critical · 9.1 CVE-2026-73256 EUVD-2026-63497

Mongoose: HTTP/1.0 detection off-by-one enables request smuggling via chunked TE

Published Aug 20, 2026 · Updated Aug 21, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Mongoose is an embedded web server and network library. Prior to 7.22, a remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit an HTTP/1.0 reverse-proxy deployment by sending a request with Transfer-Encoding: chunked and conflicting framing. The http_cb() function in src/http.c tests hm.proto.len with an impossible greater-than-eight condition even though mg_http_parse() requires an eight-byte protocol string, so is_http_1_0 is never set. Mongoose consequently processes chunked encoding that an HTTP/1.0 proxy can ignore, enabling request smuggling and unauthorized access or state changes. This issue is fixed in version 7.22.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
cesanta mongoose < 7.22 —

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 mongoose 7.22+ds-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 mongoose No fix yet —

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