GHSA-mhvj-jhpq-885vHighCVSS 7.4

blaze: Multiple HTTP/1.1 request-smuggling primitives in blaze's Java wire parser

Published
July 24, 2026
Last Modified
August 12, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products5

  • maven/org.http4s:http4s-blaze-server_2.13:<= 0.23.17
  • maven/org.http4s:blaze-http_2.13:<= 0.23.17
  • maven/org.http4s:blaze-http_3:<= 0.23.17
  • maven/org.http4s:blaze-http_3:>= 1.0.0-M1, <= 1.0.0-M41
  • maven/org.http4s:blaze-http_2.13:>= 1.0.0-M1, <= 1.0.0-M41

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