http4s/blaze · Security
blaze: Multiple HTTP/1.1 request-smuggling primitives in blaze's Java wire parser
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-mhvj-jhpq-885v
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-73494
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.4 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 7.4 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Description
Summary
Five independent HTTP/1.1 conformance laxities in blaze's hand-written Java parser (http/src/main/java/org/http4s/blaze/http/parser/) cause request-boundary disagreement with a stricter intermediary. All are reachable from a default BlazeServerBuilder with no non-default configuration.
Impact
Actual exploitability depends on the fronting proxy — a boundary disagreement requires a pair of parsers that disagree. Where the proxy forwards the malformed bytes and derives a different message boundary, the consequences are the standard set: front-end ACL/auth bypass, response-queue poisoning on pooled backend connections, and cache poisoning. Risk concentrates on lenient or legacy intermediaries.
Workarounds
Deploy behind an RFC-strict reverse proxy (nginx, HAProxy, Envoy, ALB) that rejects or re-serializes malformed requests at the edge; this neutralizes most of these for deployments that cannot upgrade immediately.
CWEs
- CWE-444 · Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
References
- https://github.com/http4s/blaze/security/advisories/GHSA-mhvj-jhpq-885v ↗
- https://github.com/http4s/blaze/commit/3f7c022e306631b006dcb43a1d7f65c0d1966f17 ↗
- https://github.com/http4s/blaze/commit/4eec2007806aa9acfefb00ebb636ddc39a147a96 ↗
- https://github.com/http4s/blaze/commit/927b67753a78c13c4445dac9307f511f5c4878c3 ↗
- https://github.com/http4s/blaze/commit/a54bc9cd31758335c7f24e29763622fd03fcf734 ↗
- https://github.com/http4s/blaze/commit/c47d9675f87603f11b32a11d503626bdf9be5c7a ↗
- https://github.com/http4s/blaze/commit/e871ebb1d27f50c98fd56988526ce42d0fee74d6 ↗
- https://github.com/http4s/blaze/releases/tag/v0.23.18 ↗
- https://github.com/http4s/blaze/releases/tag/v1.0.0-M42 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mhvj-jhpq-885v ↗