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CVE-2026-88975: Http4s: Ember HTTP/2 buffers a frame's declared payload before checking SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE

September 15, 2026

An unauthenticated peer can make Ember’s HTTP/2 read loop hold 16 MiB of a single frame in memory on a connection where Ember advertised a 16 KiB limit. The declared length is readable from the frame’s first 9 bytes, but it is not compared against SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE until the whole payload has been read into a contiguous buffer. That is 1024x amplification per connection, bounded by the protocol’s 24-bit length field rather than by any setting, and at the default maxConnections of 1024 it puts about 16 GiB of heap in reach.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-gq9p-f254-h286
  • github.com/http4s/http4s/commit/87cf334fa3f608ef7d3eb359e71e037ba3336d29
  • github.com/http4s/http4s/releases/tag/v0.23.37
  • github.com/http4s/http4s/releases/tag/v1.0.0-M48
  • github.com/http4s/http4s/security/advisories/GHSA-gq9p-f254-h286
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-88975

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.23.37, all versions starting from 1.0.0-M1 before 1.0.0-M48

Fixed versions

  • 0.23.37
  • 1.0.0-M48

Solution

Upgrade to versions 0.23.37, 1.0.0-M48 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Source file

maven/org.http4s/http4s-ember-core_3/CVE-2026-88975.yml

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