Bug 2538593 - CVE-2026-73257 mongoose: Mongoose: Content-Length + Transfer-Encoding coexistence enables request smuggling [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-73257 mongoose: Mongoose: Content-Length + Transfer-Encoding coexist...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mongoose
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Orphan Owner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-73257
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Reported: 2026-09-22 19:41 UTC by aedmond
Modified: 2026-09-22 19:41 UTC (History)
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Description aedmond 2026-09-22 19:41:19 UTC
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Mongoose is an embedded web server and network library. Priro to version 7.22, a remote unauthenticated attacker can send an HTTP request containing both Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding: chunked. The cl_count and te_count checks in the mg_http_parse() and http_cb() paths in src/http.c accept both headers and prioritize chunked encoding, while a Content-Length-preferring reverse proxy can use a different request boundary. This CL.TE desynchronization can inject requests that access or modify resources in another user context. This issue is fixed in version 7.22.


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