Advisory record · GHSA-8qx7-j2v2-x6q5

Caddy has an RFC 7230 §6.1 compliance issue / Hop-by-hop headers that leak through

CVSS 2.9 Low

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 28 Oct 2026, 19:49 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2Go<2.11.52.11.5
Identifiers
GHSA-8qx7-j2v2-x6q5 · CVE-2026-55458 · GO-2026-6874
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-444
Published
28 Oct 2026
Updated
5 Nov 2026

Machine-written summary

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

Caddy's reverse proxy, in the github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2 Go module before 2.11.5, does not strip hop-by-hop headers (such as Alt-Svc, Keep-Alive, Proxy-Authenticate, Transfer-Encoding, and Trailer) from upstream responses to WebSocket upgrade requests. An attacker who controls or compromises an upstream server could make these headers reach clients, such as Set-Cookie for cookie injection or Alt-Svc for connection hijacking. Upgrade to version 2.11.5 or later, which contains the fix.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
2.9 Low 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS No score.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:11 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:11 UTC Confirmed by OSV
  3. 5 Nov 2026, 20:15 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
  4. 5 Nov 2026, 21:18 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

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