CRLF Injection Affecting cpp-httplib package, versions [,0.44.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

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EPSS
0.3% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-CPPHTTPLIB-17099494
  • published30 May 2026
  • disclosed29 May 2026
  • creditjjjsmz

Introduced: 29 May 2026

NewCVE-2026-45372  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-93  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade cpp-httplib to version 0.44.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to CRLF Injection via the parse_header process. An attacker can inject arbitrary carriage return and line feed characters into HTTP headers by sending specially crafted percent-encoded values, potentially leading to response splitting or header injection.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1