Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V4 - API and Web Service HTTP request consistency
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 15, 2026
Let me synthesize.
CVE-2026-69205: http4s Ember HTTP parser request smuggling via Transfer-Encoding header case-sensitivity and charset decoding issues.
Key facts:
- http4s Ember (Scala HTTP library), prior to 0.23.35 and 1.0.0-M47
- CWE-444 (Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests / request smuggling)
- CVSS 8.7, CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- No EPSS given, no KEV, no explicit POC.
- Patch: 0.23.35 and 1.0.0-M47, commit 5e88b2e7b4e6ea2f0c61040a4bc9de0d73e51217
- Tags: Information Disclosure, Request Smuggling, Http4S
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Product name: "http4s Ember" — 1-3 words. "http4s" is one word. Maybe "http4s Ember". That's fine.
Summary: must not start with "A vulnerability". Start with impact. E.g., "HTTP request smuggling in http4s Ember (0.23.x before 0.23.35 and 1.0.0 milestones before M47) allows attackers to desynchronize HTTP/1.1 framing between Ember and intermediary proxies..." Note S:C (scope changed) with C:H/I:H/A:N.
Affected products: http4s Ember before 0.23.35, 1.0.0-M47. CPE cpe:2.3:a:http4s:http4s:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*. Advisories GHSA-9998-894r-fwvr, releases.
Remediation: upgrade to 0.23.35 or 1.0.0-M47; the fix decodes header bytes as ISO-8859-1 and rejects any transfer coding token other than "chunked" case-insensitively; workaround: reject/rewrite ambiguous Transfer-Encoding at reverse proxy, strip Transfer-Encoding, disable chunked, use HTTP/2 end-to-end. Note side effects: strict rejection of unknown transfer codings may break clients sending e.g. "gzip, chunked" or "identity" — actually the fix rejects any Transfer-Encoding other than chunked, including "identity"? codings split by ',' and all must equalIgnoreCase("chunked"). So "identity" would be rejected. Side effect: legitimate clients sending multiple codings will get errors.
Note Ember is both server and client (ember-client). Response smuggling requires malicious upstream.
Exploitation conditions: Requires Ember-based server behind
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
Affects your stack
Affects 5 packages in maven, euvd
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
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CVSS VectorVendor: GitHub_M
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2DescriptionCVE.org
Http4s is a Scala interface for HTTP services. Prior to 0.23.35 and 1.0.0-M47, Ember’s HeaderP.parse uses a case-sensitive substring test for the Transfer-Encoding value and decodes header bytes with the platform default charset. Values such as Chunked are not recognized, values such as notchunked are incorrectly accepted, and Unicode case folding can turn a Kelvin-sign byte sequence into a match when UTF-8 is used. Intermediaries that apply RFC-compliant token and charset rules can therefore disagree with Ember’s Content-Length or zero-length framing, enabling TE.CL or TE.0 request smuggling, access-control bypass, cross-user request hijacking, and cache poisoning on the server path. Response smuggling through an ember-client gateway requires a malicious or compromised upstream. This issue is fixed in versions 0.23.35 and 1.0.0-M47.
Blast Radius
ecosystem impact- 3 maven packages depend on org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.12 (2 direct, 1 indirect)
Ecosystem-wide dependent count for version 0.23.35.
Technical POC Analysis
CWE-444 (inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests).
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Threat Intelligence Overview
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
HTTP request smuggling exploits inconsistencies in how front-end and back-end servers parse HTTP message boundaries.
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