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CVE-2026-73257
9.1 CRITICAL
- CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
- Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
- Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
- Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
- User Interaction (UI): None (N)
- Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
- Confidentiality (C): High (H)
- Integrity (I): High (H)
- Availability (A): None (N)
- Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
- Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
- Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
- Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
- Modified Confidentiality (MC): High (H)
- Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
- Modified Integrity (MI): High (H)
- Modified Availability (MA): None (N)
Activity log
- Created suggestion
Mongoose: Content-Length + Transfer-Encoding coexistence enables request smuggling
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.
References
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https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/security/advisories/GHSA-5wfq-r6mr-wqp6 exploitx_refsource_CONFIRM
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https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/pull/3611 x_refsource_MISC
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https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/releases/tag/7.22 x_refsource_MISC
Affected products
mongoose
- ==< 7.22
Package maintainers
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@wegank Weijia Wang <contact@weijia.wang>