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CVE-2025-59822: Http4s vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling due to improper handling of HTTP trailer section

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 25/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.37% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.12 (Maven) 0.23.31; org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.13 (Maven) 1.0.0-M45, 0.23.31; org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_3 (Maven) 1.0.0-M45, 0.23.31.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.12 (Maven) 0.23.31; org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.13 (Maven) 1.0.0-M45, 0.23.31; org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_3 (Maven) 1.0.0-M45, 0.23.31 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Http4s is a Scala interface for HTTP services. In versions from 1.0.0-M1 to before 1.0.0-M45 and before 0.23.31, http4s is vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling due to improper handling of HTTP trailer section. This vulnerability could enable attackers to bypass front-end servers security controls, launch targeted attacks against active users, and poison web caches. A pre-requisite for exploitation involves the web application being deployed behind a reverse-proxy that forwards trailer headers. This issue has been patched in versions 1.0.0-M45 and 0.23.31.

MediumCVSS 6.3 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available
Published
Sep 23, 2025
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
EPSS
0.3% · 31th percentile

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Action score

25

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
25 / 40 · 6.3 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
proof of concept
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · GitHub_M
6.3
NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

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

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
typelevelhttp4s

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • typelevel http4sbefore 0.23.31
  • typelevel http4s1.0.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • http4s http4s

    • < 0.23.31, >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M45affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Mavenorg.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.12before 0.23.310.23.31
Mavenorg.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.13from 1.0.0-M1 · before 1.0.0-M451.0.0-M45
Mavenorg.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.13before 0.23.310.23.31
Mavenorg.http4s:http4s-ember-core_3from 1.0.0-M1 · before 1.0.0-M451.0.0-M45
Mavenorg.http4s:http4s-ember-core_3before 0.23.310.23.31

Same product

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2021-39185Default CORS config allows any origin with credentials
    36Monitor
  • CVE-2020-5280Local file inclusion vulnerability in http4s
    32Monitor
  • CVE-2021-21294Unbounded connection acceptance in http4s-blaze-server
    31Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2021-32643May 27, 2021 · StaticFile.fromUrl can leak presence of a directory
    23Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2021-41084Sep 21, 2021 · Response Splitting from unsanitized headers in http4s
    18Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2023-22465Jan 4, 2023 · Http4s has fatal error parsing User-Agent and Server headers
    21Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Maven:org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.120.23.31Package registry (OSV)
Maven:org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.130.23.31Package registry (OSV)
Maven:org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.131.0.0-M45Package registry (OSV)
Maven:org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_30.23.31Package registry (OSV)
Maven:org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_31.0.0-M45Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-444 · Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')

CVSS vector

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:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

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References

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