HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting std/net/http package, versions <1.4.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
19.21% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-STDNETHTTP-14548602
  • published6 Jan 2026
  • disclosed5 Jan 2022
  • creditJed Denlea, Régis Leroy

Introduced: 5 Jan 2022

CVE-2015-5739  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-444  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade std/net/http to version 1.4.3 or higher.

Overview

std/net/http is a Go standard library package std/net/http

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling.

Go Vulnerability Report:
HTTP headers were not properly parsed, which allows remote attackers to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks via a request that contains Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding header fields.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1