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archivevulnerability · 15 Sep 2026 · 19:54 UTC

GHSA-9998-894r-fwvr: Http4s Ember Transfer-Encoding value parsing (TE.CL / TE.0 request smuggling)

VULNCVE-2026-69205source · GTH
HIGHHigh-risk vulnerability — CVSS 8.7

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## Summary Ember's HTTP/1.1 header parser matches the `Transfer-Encoding` header value with a case-sensitive substring test (`hValue.contains("chunked")`). RFC 9112 §7 requires transfer-coding names to be compared case-insensitively. A request carrying `Transfer-Encoding: Chunked` (capital C) is therefore not recognised as chunked, and Ember falls back to framing by `Content-Length` (or zero if absent) while a compliant intermediary frames the same bytes by chunked encoding. The two parsers then disagree on where the request body ends, enabling HTTP request smuggling (TE.CL / TE.0). …

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