CVE-2026-55614: uhttpd vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling via case-sensitive Transfer-Encoding matching

Published Oct 30, 2026
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Updated

uhttpd is a small HTTP server. In unpatched repository snapshots, clientparseheader() 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->transferchunked, 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.

Event History

Oct 30, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·10:01 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·10:01 PM
DescriptionWeakness
Data Sourced
via OSV·10:01 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·10:16 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness

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