High severity · published Jul 16, 2026
CVE-2026-44453
h2o is vulnerable to musl libc stack overflow
7.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
h2o is an HTTP server with support for HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Prior to commit 6b5370d, h2o is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack when calling alloca under certain conditions. When serving static files, h2o builds the file path on stack, by calling alloca. The maximum size of the memory allocated using alloca can be as huge as ~600KB, which exceeds the default pthread stack size used by musl libc (128KB). If the amount of memory allocated by alloca exceeds the stack size, the h2o server crashes with a segmentation fault, while it tries to touch the guard page. This issue has been fixed by commit 6b5370d.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 42% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
H2
h2o · h2o
< 6b5370d · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44453
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-44453
Patch
https://github.com/h2o/h2o/commit/6b5370d9d09fcf83aa7620ddf77de1954a192181
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/h2o/h2o/security/advisories/GHSA-rf9v-m59p-mq84
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