GHSA-mgp5-rjrv-h5j3: Mongoose: HTTP/1.0 detection off-by-one enables request smuggling via chunked TE
Mongoose is an embedded web server and network library. Prior to 7.22, a remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit an HTTP/1.0 reverse-proxy deployment by sending a request with Transfer-Encoding: chunked and conflicting framing. The httpcb() function in src/http.c tests hm.proto.len with an impossible greater-than-eight condition even though mghttpparse() requires an eight-byte protocol string, so ishttp10 is never set. Mongoose consequently processes chunked encoding that an HTTP/1.0 proxy can ignore, enabling request smuggling and unauthorized access or state changes. This issue is fixed in version 7.22.
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Mongooseto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 7.22