Medium severity · published Jul 16, 2026
CVE-2026-44452
h2o is vulnerable to heap overrun
5.9
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
h2o is an HTTP server with support for HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Prior to commit 8dc37cb, when h2o receives a ClientHello message over TLS or QUIC and it contains a zero-length SNI extension, the h2o server runs over the zero-length hostname while trying to copy the hostname, assuming that it is NULL-terminated. This is a potential denial-of-service attack vector in sense that it might trigger segmentation violation. This issue has been fixed by commit 8dc37cb.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 35% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
H2
h2o · h2o
< 8dc37cb · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44452
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-44452
Patch
https://github.com/h2o/h2o/commit/8dc37cb1e6171f7f772667618ea440696fed82c3
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/h2o/h2o/security/advisories/GHSA-w68q-rqwx-7wvq
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