HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting h3 package, versions <1.15.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-H3-15010914
  • published16 Jan 2026
  • disclosed15 Jan 2026
  • creditSimon Köck

Introduced: 15 Jan 2026

CVE-2026-23527  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-444  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade h3 to version 1.15.5 or higher.

Overview

h3 is a Minimal H(TTP) framework built for high performance and portability.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling via improper parsing of the Transfer-Encoding header in the readRawBody() function. An attacker can bypass security controls and poison web caches by sending specially crafted HTTP requests with case-variant headers.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1