CVE-2026-55614CWE-444

uhttpd vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling via case-sensitive Transfer-Encoding matching

Medium · published October 30, 2026

CVSS v4.0
6.9
EPSS
—
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

uhttpd is a small HTTP server. In unpatched repository snapshots, `client_parse_header()` in `client.c` lowercases header names but compares the `Transfer-Encoding` value to `chunked` using case-sensitive `strcmp`. A mixed-case transfer-coding token is accepted without enabling `r->transfer_chunked`, despite transfer-coding tokens being case-insensitive. On a keep-alive connection, the `chunked` POST body is left unread and request-shaped body bytes are parsed as another HTTP request, permitting HTTP request smuggling and boundary desynchronization. Commits ae015e099986ceace44975cb69629841a2d58d37 and 6641b050e5f7c7fd9ae92e8e119d6d6dfc6e9837 patch the issue.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
6.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
Not scored
Weakness
CWE-444 · Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
Published
2026-10-30T22:01Z
Timeline
  • 30 OCT 22:01Z
    uhttpd vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling via case-sensitive Transfer-Encoding matching
    cvelistv5
  • 30 OCT 22:01Z
    uhttpd vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling via case-sensitive Transfer-Encoding matching
    cvelistv5