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CVE-2026-73494: http4s blaze · HTTP Request/Response Smuggling

Affects http4s blazeSource CVE Database V5

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Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.4 High : upgrade to 1.0.0-M42 or 0.23.18 soon.

Data as of 30 Oct 2026, 06:59 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
7.4High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
EPSS
0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 49% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch
Available – fixed in 1.0.0-M42, 0.23.18
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 14 Sep 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 29 Oct 2026.

What to do

Upgrade blaze and blaze-http_2.13 and blaze-http_3 and http4s/blaze to 1.0.0-M42 or 0.23.18; http4s-blaze-server_2.13 to 0.23.18.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
http4sblazeAffected
  • >=1.0.0-M1 <1.0.0-M42
Fixed in
  • 1.0.0-M42
http4sblazeAffected
  • <0.23.18
Fixed in
  • 0.23.18
org.http4sblaze-http_2.13Affected
  • >=1.0.0-M1 <1.0.0-M42
Fixed in
  • 1.0.0-M42
org.http4sblaze-http_2.13Affected
  • <0.23.18
Fixed in
  • 0.23.18
org.http4sblaze-http_3Affected
  • >=1.0.0-M1 <1.0.0-M42
Fixed in
  • 1.0.0-M42
org.http4sblaze-http_3Affected
  • <0.23.18
Fixed in
  • 0.23.18

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AI-suggested

Upgrade to blaze versions 0.23.18 or later, or 1.0.0-M42 or later, where this vulnerability is fixed. No non-default configuration is required to exploit, so patching is the primary mitigation. There is no indication that temporary fixes or workarounds exist. Patch status is confirmed fixed in the specified versions.

Description

blaze is a Scala library for building asynchronous pipelines, with a focus on network IO. Prior to 0.23.18 and from 1.0.0-M1 until 1.0.0-M42, five HTTP/1.1 conformance laxities in the hand-written Java parser under http/src/main/java/org/http4s/blaze/http/parser/ can cause blaze to derive a different request boundary than a stricter fronting intermediary. A default BlazeServerBuilder accepts invalid or valueless header field names that violate tchar syntax, obsolete folded field lines (obs-fold), unsupported Transfer-Encoding values, duplicate Content-Length fields, and requests containing both Transfer-Encoding and Content-Length. If a lenient or legacy proxy forwards the malformed bytes but interprets them differently, the disagreement can permit front-end authorization bypass, response-queue poisoning on pooled backend connections, or cache poisoning. Exploitation requires a pair of disagreeing parsers; no non-default blaze configuration is required. The affected checks are enforced in BodyAndHeaderParser and Http1ServerParser. This issue is fixed in versions 0.23.18 and 1.0.0-M42.

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