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CVE-2026-73495
Published:August 12, 2026
Updated:August 31, 2026
blaze is a Scala library for building asynchronous pipelines, with a focus on network IO. Prior to 0.23.18 and 1.0.0-M42, blaze-server can merge HTTP/1.1 chunked-body trailer fields into Request.headers. Because trailer fields are attacker-controlled, an unauthenticated remote client can inject arbitrary header names and values, including X-Forwarded-For and internal authorization headers, that a fronting proxy sanitized from the request-header section, bypassing header-based trust decisions in the application. Any http4s application using BlazeServerBuilder over HTTP/1.1 whose routes or middleware trust proxy-set headers, including X-Forwarded-For, X-Real-IP, and X-Forwarded-Host, is affected. If a fronting proxy strips or normalizes those headers but forwards chunked bodies with trailers intact, an attacker can spoof client IP for allow-lists, rate limits, or auditing, forge the https scheme, or inject internal authorization headers. A promoted Connection: close trailer is also honored, allowing attacker-controlled termination of pooled backend connections. This issue is fixed in versions 0.23.18 and 1.0.0-M42.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/http4s/blaze.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v0.14.0 <v0.23.18
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v0.23.18
https://github.com/http4s/blaze.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v1.0.0-M33 <v1.0.0-M42
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.0.0-M42
org.http4s:blaze-http_2.13 (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=1.0.0-M33 <1.0.0-M42
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 1.0.0-M42
org.http4s:blaze-http_3 (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=0.15.0 <0.23.18
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 0.23.18
org.http4s:blaze-http_3 (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=1.0.0-M33 <1.0.0-M42
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 1.0.0-M42
org.http4s:blaze-http_2.13 (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=0.14.5 <0.23.18
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 0.23.18
org.http4s:blaze-http_2.13 (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=0.14.5 <0.23.18
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 0.23.18
org.http4s:blaze-http_2.12 (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=0.12.4 <0.23.18
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 0.23.18
org.http4s:blaze-http_2.12 (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=0.12.4 <0.23.18
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 0.23.18
org.http4s:blaze-http_3 (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=0.15.0 <0.23.18
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 0.23.18
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
9.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
7.4
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
EPSS
Base Score:
0.29