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JLSEC-2026-616 json

HTTP/1 client request smuggling via CR/LF in method, target, or host in HTTP.jl

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Summary

### Description

The HTTP/1 client serialized `request.method` and `request.target` (and, in forward-proxy absolute-form, the host) verbatim onto the wire with no CR/LF/CTL filtering; the only target validator was wired solely into the server parse path. A caller passing an attacker-influenced URL or method to the client could embed `\r\n` in the method, path, or query to inject arbitrary request headers, or `\r\n\r\n` to smuggle a second pipelined request onto a pooled keep-alive (or proxy-forwarded) connection. The HTTP/2 client already rejected CR/LF in `:path`, so this was an HTTP/1-specific omission.

### Impact

CR/LF injection in client request start lines could lead to header injection and request smuggling on reused or proxied connections.

### Patches

Fixed in HTTP.jl v2.4.0. A new `_validate_request_start_line!` validates the method against the RFC 7230 token grammar, delegates target validation to the existing `_validate_request_target!`, and rejects control bytes in a supplied host. It is wired into all HTTP/1 wire start-line writers (origin-form, CONNECT authority-form, asterisk-form, websocket, and forward-proxy absolute-form) before any bytes are emitted, rejecting offending requests with a `ParseError`.

Reported to the JuliaLang security team through Anthropic's Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure program.

Patch / fix

  • julia HTTP 2.4.0

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ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia HTTP
<2.4.0
2.4.0

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