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GHSA-px9f-whj3-246m: Req vulnerable to multipart form-data header injection via unescaped name/filename/content_type

mediumCVE-2026-49756
Summary Req's multipart form encoder interpolates the per-part name, filename, and content_type directly into the part headers without escaping. An attacker who can influence any of those values can inject CRLF-separated header lines, smuggle additional form fields, or prepend a whole extra part into the request the victim service sends downstream. Details Req.Utils.encode_form_part/2 in lib/req/utils.ex builds the per-part header iodata by concatenating the three caller-supplied strings verbatim into content-disposition: form-data; name="<name>"; filename="<filename>" and content-type: <content_type>. There is no CRLF stripping, no quote escaping, and no validation. A value containing "\r\n closes the surrounding quoted value and starts a new header line; an additional \r\n--<boundary> terminates the current part and lets the attacker prepend a smuggled part. The flaw is reachable through every supported way of supplying a part. It is especially easy to hit when value is a %File.Stream{}, because filename then defaults to Path.basename(stream.path) and POSIX filenames may legitimately contain \r and \n. RFC 7578 / WHATWG form-data requires percent-encoding ", CR, and LF in these fields; the fix adopts that behavior. PoC 1. Construct a malicious filename such as harmless.txt"\r\nX-Smuggled: marker\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name="pwned. 2. Call Req.post!(url, form_multipart: [upload: {"benign body", filename: <malicious>, content_type: "text/plain"}]). 3. The emitted multipart body contains a real X-Smuggled: header line and an extra Content-Disposition for name="pwned", alongside Req's legitimate headers. Impact HTTP request smuggling / multipart parameter smuggling in the HTTP client. Any application using Req to send form_multipart requests where any of name, filename, or content_type can be influenced by an untrusted source is affected, most commonly upload proxies and re-uploaders that derive filename from Path.basename/1 on a user-controlled pa

Details

Source
GitHub Security Advisories (INTL · database · site)
Severity
medium
Published
2026-07-29
Last updated
2026-07-29
Exploitation
Not in CISA KEV at last sync

Original advisory: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-px9f-whj3-246m

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