CVE-2026-56866 PUBLISHED

HTTP/1 client connection desynchronization after CONNECT rejection in net/http

Assigner: Go
Reserved: 23.06.2026 Published: 08.10.2026 Updated: 09.10.2026

When http.Transport sends an HTTP/1 CONNECT request with a non-empty Request.Body, it writes the body directly to the connection without framing after the request headers. If the server rejects the CONNECT request with a non-2xx keep-alive response, Transport returns the connection to the idle pool. Because CONNECT requests do not have a request body, the server may interpret the trailing body bytes as a subsequent pipelined HTTP/1.1 request on the connection, leaving the pooled connection desynchronized and causing the next caller that reuses it to read the response to the injected request. In reverse proxies (including httputil.ReverseProxy) that forward CONNECT requests through a shared Transport, this can lead to cross-user response poisoning.

Product Status

Vendor Go standard library
Product net/http
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.26.9 (excl.)
  • affected from 1.27.0-0 to 1.27.2 (excl.)
Vendor Go standard library
Product net/http/httputil
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.26.9 (excl.)
  • affected from 1.27.0-0 to 1.27.2 (excl.)

Credits

  • Xclow3n (Rajat Raghav)

References

Problem Types

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