Advisory record · GHSA-6hr6-w5qg-qmwg

h2: Duplicate Host header could facilitate request smuggling

CVSS 5.3 MediumEPSS 0.0042 · 36th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 6 Aug 2026, 21:53 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
h2PyPI<4.4.14.4.1
Identifiers
GHSA-6hr6-w5qg-qmwg · CVE-2026-71554 · PYSEC-2026-3628
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-444
Published
6 Aug 2026
Updated
10 Sept 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

The h2 package, versions before 4.4.1, accepts HTTP/2 header blocks that contain more than one Host header and passes all of them to the application. An attacker who can send such requests to a server built on h2 could carry out request smuggling when the request is downgraded to HTTP/1.1. Upgrade h2 to version 4.4.1. The source's workaround is to check HTTP semantics in application code, which is only a partial safeguard.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
5.3 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0042, the 36th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:10 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:10 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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