High severity · published Sep 14, 2026
CVE-2026-73494
blaze: Multiple HTTP/1.1 request-smuggling primitives in blaze's Java wire parser
7.4
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
blaze is a Scala library for building asynchronous pipelines, with a focus on network IO. Prior to 0.23.18 and from 1.0.0-M1 until 1.0.0-M42, five HTTP/1.1 conformance laxities in the hand-written Java parser under http/src/main/java/org/http4s/blaze/http/parser/ can cause blaze to derive a different request boundary than a stricter fronting intermediary. A default BlazeServerBuilder accepts invalid or valueless header field names that violate tchar syntax, obsolete folded field lines (obs-fold), unsupported Transfer-Encoding values, duplicate Content-Length fields, and requests containing both Transfer-Encoding and Content-Length. If a lenient or legacy proxy forwards the malformed bytes but interprets them differently, the disagreement can permit front-end authorization bypass, response-queue poisoning on pooled backend connections, or cache poisoning. Exploitation requires a pair of disagreeing parsers; no non-default blaze configuration is required. The affected checks are enforced in BodyAndHeaderParser and Http1ServerParser. This issue is fixed in versions 0.23.18 and 1.0.0-M42.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 50% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BL
blaze · http4s
< 0.23.18; >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M42 · source: vendor
BL
blaze-http_2.13 · org.http4s
< 0.23.18; >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M42 · source: vendor
BL
blaze-http_3 · org.http4s
< 0.23.18; >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M42 · source: vendor
HT
http4s-blaze-server_2.13 · org.http4s
< 0.23.18 · source: vendor