High severity · published Aug 12, 2026
CVE-2026-73495
blaze: Chunked-body trailer fields promoted into Request.headers in blaze-server (front-end header-sanitization bypass)
7.4
CVSS
0.5%
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 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.
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)0.5% · higher than 41% 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
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-73495
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-73495
github.com
https://github.com/http4s/blaze/commit/ef3e666c146cfc16cb6603f1fc3c464daab4a24f
github.com
https://github.com/http4s/blaze/releases/tag/v0.23.18
github.com
https://github.com/http4s/blaze/releases/tag/v1.0.0-M42
github.com
https://github.com/http4s/blaze/security/advisories/GHSA-46q4-43ph-c6fr
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