GHSA-2q7f-mf9f-5qhr: Request smuggling through malformed chunked request trailers

Published Nov 6, 2026
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Updated

The HTTP/1 chunked decoder accepts a bare line feed after the final chunk as the start of a trailer instead of rejecting the malformed request.

When an upstream proxy reuses a connection and either pipelines the requests or does not take steps to validate the chunked stream, the decoder can consume the next request's headers as trailer data. It can then parse that request's body as a new request. An attacker can use this difference in request parsing to bypass access controls enforced by a proxy or web application firewall.

Upgrade to actix-http 3.20.2 or later.

Affected Software

1 affected componentFixes available
rust/actix-http>=0.0.0-0<3.20.2
3.20.2

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade rust/actix-http to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 3.20.2
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade actix-http to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 3.20.2

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