CVE-2026-71554: h2: Duplicate Host header could facilitate request smuggling

August 6, 2026

h2 <=4.4.0 accepts request header blocks containing more than one Host header, and forwards every Host header to the consuming application. Where the consumer downgrades HTTP/2 to HTTP/1.1, the resulting request carries two Host header lines, which is a request smuggling primitive (CWE-444).

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-6hr6-w5qg-qmwg
github.com/python-hyper/h2/commit/292a40829feefda98c8509dcdbbb4a57af9bd6a6
github.com/python-hyper/h2/security/advisories/GHSA-6hr6-w5qg-qmwg
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-71554

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