CVE-2026-23941 (GCVE-0-2026-23941)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-13 09:11 – Updated: 2026-04-07 14:38
VLAI?
Title
Request smuggling via first-wins Content-Length parsing in inets httpd
Summary
Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request Smuggling') vulnerability in Erlang OTP (inets httpd module) allows HTTP Request Smuggling. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/inets/src/http_server/httpd_request.erl and program routines httpd_request:parse_headers/7. The server does not reject or normalize duplicate Content-Length headers. The earliest Content-Length in the request is used for body parsing while common reverse proxies (nginx, Apache httpd, Envoy) honor the last Content-Length value. This violates RFC 9112 Section 6.3 and allows front-end/back-end desynchronization, leaving attacker-controlled bytes queued as the start of the next request. This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 until OTP 28.4.1, OTP 27.3.4.9 and OTP 26.2.5.18, corresponding to inets from 5.10 until 9.6.1, 9.3.2.3 and 9.1.0.5.
Severity ?
7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L
CWE
  • CWE-444 - Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request Smuggling')
Assigner
EEF
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Erlang OTP Affected: 5.10 , < * (otp)
    cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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    Erlang OTP Affected: 17.0 , < * (otp)
Affected: 0 , < * (git)
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Credits
Luigino Camastra / Aisle Research Konrad Pietrzak
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