CVE-2026-78660 PUBLISHED

HTTP/2 transport accepts malformed framing-related headers in net/http

Assigner: Go
Reserved: 24.08.2026 Published: 08.10.2026 Updated: 08.10.2026

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.

Product Status

Vendor Go standard library
Product net/http
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.26.9 (excl.)
Vendor Go standard library
Product net/http/internal/http2
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1.27.0-0 to 1.27.2 (excl.)
Vendor golang.org/x/net
Product golang.org/x/net/http2
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 0.60.0 (excl.)

Credits

  • TJ Barton

References

Problem Types

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