CVE-2026-78660 (GCVE-0-2026-78660)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-08 22:53 – Updated: 2026-10-09 16:23
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
HTTP/2 transport accepts malformed framing-related headers in net/http
Summary
Historically, we have been rather lax about malformed framing-related headers in our HTTP/2 implementation, as they cannot interfere with HTTP/2 framing. However, this makes it possible for our HTTP/2 implementation to forward responses containing such headers to an HTTP/1 client when acting as a reverse proxy. If the HTTP/1 client also does not behave strictly enough, this can result in response smuggling.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-09 16:21 UTC
CWE
- CWE-444 - Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Go standard library | net/http |
Affected:
0 , < 1.26.9
(semver)
|
guessed | |
| Go standard library | net/http/internal/http2 |
Affected:
1.27.0-0 , < 1.27.2
(semver)
|
guessed | |
| golang.org/x/net | golang.org/x/net/http2 |
Affected:
0 , < 0.60.0
(semver)
|
guessed |
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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