Bug 2443262 (CVE-2026-28369) - CVE-2026-28369 undertow: Undertow: Request Smuggling via Malformed HTTP Request Headers
Summary: CVE-2026-28369 undertow: Undertow: Request Smuggling via Malformed HTTP Reque...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-28369
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-02-27 04:44 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-03-27 16:00 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-02-27 04:44:52 UTC
When Undertow receives a request in which the first header line begins
with one or more spaces, it strips them before processing the request.
This is usable as a request smuggling primitive.

The HTTP RFCs state that when a field-line begins with a space or tab,
it is permissible to concatenate it into the previous field-line's
value. This is referred to as `obs-fold` in the RFCs. However, it is
always invalid to obs-fold on the first line, since there is no
previous field-line to concatenate into. Thus, the message should be
rejected.


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