HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting cesanta/mongoose package, versions [,7.22)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CESANTAMONGOOSE-19233312
  • published23 Aug 2026
  • disclosed21 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-73257  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-444  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade cesanta/mongoose to version 7.22 or higher.

Overview

cesanta/mongoose is a networking library for C/C++. It implements event-driven non-blocking APIs for TCP, UDP, HTTP, WebSocket, MQTT.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling via the coexistence of both Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding headers in HTTP requests. An attacker can access or modify resources in another user context by exploiting desynchronization between the server and a reverse proxy.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1