HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting std/net/http package, versions <1.17.12>=1.18.0-0 <1.18.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-STDNETHTTP-14548606
  • published6 Jan 2026
  • disclosed25 Jul 2022
  • creditZeyu Zhang

Introduced: 25 Jul 2022

CVE-2022-1705  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-444  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade std/net/http to version 1.17.12, 1.18.4 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:
The HTTP/1 client accepted some invalid Transfer-Encoding headers as indicating a "chunked" encoding. This could potentially allow for request smuggling, but only if combined with an intermediate server that also improperly failed to reject the header as invalid.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1