Bug 2520644 (CVE-2026-73256) - CVE-2026-73256 mongoose: Mongoose: HTTP/1.0 detection off-by-one enables request smuggling via chunked TE
Summary: CVE-2026-73256 mongoose: Mongoose: HTTP/1.0 detection off-by-one enables requ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-73256
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2538638
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Reported: 2026-08-20 17:55 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-29 18:24 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-20 17:55:56 UTC
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.


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