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GHSA-6hr6-w5qg-qmwg: h2: Duplicate Host header could facilitate request smuggling

mediumCVSS 5.3CVE-2026-71554
Impact h2 <=4.4.0 accepts request header blocks containing more than one Host header, and forwards every Host header to the consuming application. Where the consumer downgrades HTTP/2 to HTTP/1.1, the resulting request carries two Host header lines, which is a request smuggling primitive (CWE-444). Patches Patched and fixed in v4.4.1 Workarounds Users of the h2 library are advised to check and follow HTTP semantics best practices in their application code. h2 provides best effort sanity checks, but ultimately the calling code is responsible to ensure proper and safe usage of HTTP/2 as provided by h2, hyperframe, and hpack. References Similar to the previously disclosed and fixed duplicate content-length issue.

Details

Source
GitHub Security Advisories (INTL · database · site)
Severity
medium — CVSS 5.3
Published
2026-08-06
Last updated
2026-08-06
Exploitation
Not in CISA KEV at last sync

Original advisory: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6hr6-w5qg-qmwg

Referenced CVEs

CVECSIRTS overviewExternal
CVE-2026-71554coverage & exploitation statusNVD · CVE.org

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