CVE-2026-23941

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23941
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-23941.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-23941
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2026-03-13T09:11:58.175Z
Modified
2026-07-27T03:56:21.720655576Z
Severity
  • 7.0 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
Request smuggling via first-wins Content-Length parsing in inets httpd
Details

Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request Smuggling') vulnerability in Erlang OTP (inets httpd module) allows HTTP Request Smuggling.

This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/inets/src/httpserver/httpdrequest.erl and program routines httpdrequest:parseheaders/7.

The server does not reject or normalize duplicate Content-Length headers. The earliest Content-Length in the request is used for body parsing while common reverse proxies (nginx, Apache httpd, Envoy) honor the last Content-Length value. This violates RFC 9112 Section 6.3 and allows front-end/back-end desynchronization, leaving attacker-controlled bytes queued as the start of the next request.

This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 28.4.1, OTP 27.3.4.9 and OTP 26.2.5.18, corresponding to inets from 5.10 before 9.6.1, 9.3.2.3 and 9.1.0.5.

Database specific
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-444"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/23xxx/CVE-2026-23941.json",
    "cna_assigner": "EEF",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "5.10"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "*"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "17.0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "*"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "84adefa331c4159d432d22840663c38f155cd4c1"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "*"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/erlang/otp

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/erlang/otp
Events
Database specific
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "17.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "26.2.5.18"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "27.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "27.3.4.9"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "28.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "28.4.1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

OTP-17.*
OTP-17.0
OTP-18.*
OTP-18.0
OTP-18.0-rc1
OTP-19.*
OTP-19.0
OTP-19.0-rc1
OTP-19.0-rc2
OTP-20.*
OTP-20.0
OTP-20.0-rc1
OTP-20.0-rc2
OTP-21.*
OTP-21.0
OTP-21.0-rc1
OTP-21.0-rc2
OTP-22.*
OTP-22.0
OTP-22.0-rc1
OTP-22.0-rc2
OTP-22.0-rc3
OTP-23.*
OTP-23.0
OTP-23.0-rc1
OTP-23.0-rc2
OTP-23.0-rc3
OTP-24.*
OTP-24.0
OTP-24.0-rc1
OTP-24.0-rc2
OTP-24.0-rc3
OTP-25.*
OTP-25.0
OTP-25.0-rc1
OTP-25.0-rc2
OTP-25.0-rc3
OTP-26.*
OTP-26.0
OTP-26.0-rc1
OTP-26.0-rc2
OTP-26.0-rc3
OTP-26.1
OTP-26.2
OTP-26.2.3
OTP-26.2.4
OTP-26.2.5
OTP-26.2.5.1
OTP-26.2.5.10
OTP-26.2.5.11
OTP-26.2.5.12
OTP-26.2.5.13
OTP-26.2.5.14
OTP-26.2.5.15
OTP-26.2.5.16
OTP-26.2.5.17
OTP-26.2.5.2
OTP-26.2.5.3
OTP-26.2.5.4
OTP-26.2.5.5
OTP-26.2.5.6
OTP-26.2.5.7
OTP-26.2.5.8
OTP-26.2.5.9
OTP-27.*
OTP-27.0
OTP-27.1
OTP-27.2
OTP-27.3
OTP-27.3.1
OTP-27.3.2
OTP-27.3.3
OTP-27.3.4
OTP-27.3.4.1
OTP-27.3.4.2
OTP-27.3.4.3
OTP-27.3.4.4
OTP-27.3.4.5
OTP-27.3.4.6
OTP-27.3.4.7
OTP-27.3.4.8
OTP-28.*
OTP-28.0
OTP-28.1
OTP-28.4
Other
patch-base-26
patch-base-27

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-23941.json"