GHSA-mhvj-jhpq-885v
blaze: Multiple HTTP/1.1 request-smuggling primitives in blaze's Java wire parser
Summary
### 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.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected versions | Fixed versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.http4s:http4s-blaze-server_2.13 | — | 0.23.18 |
| Maven | org.http4s:blaze-http_2.13 | — | 0.23.18, 1.0.0-M42 |
| Maven | org.http4s:blaze-http_3 | — | 0.23.18, 1.0.0-M42 |
Remediation: Upgrade to 0.23.18 or later.
References
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