CVE-2026-64785

Summary SwiftNIO HTTP/2 was missing validation on inbound HEADERS frames that let CR, LF, NUL, SP and other control characters reach an HTTP/1.1 backend through NIOHTTP2's HTTP/2-to-HTTP/1 codec, enabling HTTP request smuggling or response splitting. Impact Two related gaps in inbound header validation, against any application using HTTP2ToHTTP1Codec (or HTTP2FramePayloadToHTTP1Codec) to front an HTTP/1.1 backend: Regular header field values were only checked against a forbidden-name list (connection, transfer-encoding, proxy-connection, keep-alive, upgrade); the value itself was never inspected. An attacker-controlled regular header field value containing CR or LF passed validation and, once serialized as name: value CRLF by the codec, terminated the field early and injected extra header lines into the outbound HTTP/1.1 message. Pseudo-header values (:path in particular) were only checked against CR, LF and NUL. A :path value containing SP serializes into the request-target of METHOD SP request-target SP HTTP-version CRLF, so a value like /a HTTP/1.1 produces GET /a HTTP/1.1 HTTP/1.1 — a parser-differential request line depending on whether a downstream reader takes the first or last SP-delimited token as the version. Neither of these is reachable on a stock pipeline: NIOHTTP1's outbound validator (enableOutboundHeaderValidation, on by default) already rejects these characters on write. The exposure is pipelines that skip outbound validation, or any code that reads validated-looking HTTPRequestHead.headers and forwards the values on trusting that HTTP/2 already checked them. Fix Fixed in 48bfd90 and 45bdf67. Mitigation Upgrade to 1.45.0

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