GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-mhvj-jhpq-885v blaze: Multiple HTTP/1.1 request-smuggling primitives in blaze's Java wire parser
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-73494
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- org.http4s:http4s-blaze-server_2.13, org.http4s:blaze-http_2.13, org.http4s:blaze-http_3
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-444
- Reviewed
- 2026-07-24
Affected packages
• Maven org.http4s:http4s-blaze-server_2.13: < 0.23.18 → fixed in 0.23.18
• Maven org.http4s:blaze-http_2.13: < 0.23.18 → fixed in 0.23.18
• Maven org.http4s:blaze-http_3: < 0.23.18 → fixed in 0.23.18
• Maven org.http4s:blaze-http_3: >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M42 → fixed in 1.0.0-M42
• Maven org.http4s:blaze-http_2.13: >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M42 → fixed in 1.0.0-M42
Description
Summary
Five independent HTTP/1.1 conformance laxities in blaze's hand-written Java parser (`http/src/main/java/org/http4s/blaze/http/parser/`) cause request-boundary disagreement with a stricter intermediary. All are reachable from a default `BlazeServerBuilder` with no non-default configuration.
Impact
Actual exploitability depends on the fronting proxy — a boundary disagreement requires a *pair* of parsers that disagree. Where the proxy forwards the malformed bytes and derives a different message boundary, the consequences are the standard set: front-end ACL/auth bypass, response-queue poisoning on pooled backend connections, and cache poisoning. Risk concentrates on lenient or legacy intermediaries.
Workarounds
Deploy behind an RFC-strict reverse proxy (nginx, HAProxy, Envoy, ALB) that rejects or re-serializes malformed requests at the edge; this neutralizes most of these for deployments that cannot upgrade immediately.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-73494 blaze is a Scala library for building asynchronous pipelines, with a focus on network IO. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests weakness
References
- https://github.com/http4s/blaze/security/advisories/GHSA-mhvj-jhpq-885v web
- https://github.com/http4s/blaze/commit/3f7c022e306631b006dcb43a1d7f65c0d1966f17 web
- https://github.com/http4s/blaze/commit/4eec2007806aa9acfefb00ebb636ddc39a147a96 web
- https://github.com/http4s/blaze/commit/927b67753a78c13c4445dac9307f511f5c4878c3 web
- https://github.com/http4s/blaze/commit/a54bc9cd31758335c7f24e29763622fd03fcf734 web
- https://github.com/http4s/blaze/commit/c47d9675f87603f11b32a11d503626bdf9be5c7a web
- https://github.com/http4s/blaze/commit/e871ebb1d27f50c98fd56988526ce42d0fee74d6 web
- https://github.com/http4s/blaze package
- https://github.com/http4s/blaze/releases/tag/v0.23.18 web
- https://github.com/http4s/blaze/releases/tag/v1.0.0-M42 web