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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-88975 EUVD-2026-79239GHSA-gq9p-f254-h286

Http4s: Ember HTTP/2 buffers a frame's declared payload before checking SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE

Published Sep 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 16, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Http4s is a Scala interface for HTTP services. Prior to 0.23.37 and 1.0.0-M48, Ember’s HTTP/2 read loop parses a frame’s 24-bit declared length but waits to buffer the entire payload before comparing it with SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE. An unauthenticated peer can declare a payload near 16 MiB on a connection where Ember advertised 16 KiB and either complete or slowly stream it, causing up to 1024-fold memory amplification per connection before processFrame can reject the frame. The shared H2Connection.readLoop affects withHttp2 servers and clients, while HTTP/2-disabled configurations are unaffected, and the patch rejects oversized frames before buffering their payloads. This issue is fixed in versions 0.23.37 and 1.0.0-M48.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
http4s http4s < 0.23.37, >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M48 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.12 < 0.23.37 0.23.37 GHSA-gq9p-f254-h286
Maven org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.13 < 0.23.37 0.23.37 GHSA-gq9p-f254-h286
Maven org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.13 >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M48 1.0.0-M48 GHSA-gq9p-f254-h286
Maven org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_3 < 0.23.37 0.23.37 GHSA-gq9p-f254-h286
Maven org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_3 >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M48 1.0.0-M48 GHSA-gq9p-f254-h286

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