{"id":"CVE-2026-54556","summary":"Http4s: HTTP/2 Denial of Service with Ember Backend","details":"Http4s is a Scala interface for HTTP services. Prior to 0.23.35 and 1.0.0-M47, an unauthenticated HTTP/2 peer can cause an out-of-memory denial of service in the Ember backend with HTTP/2 enabled. The Hpack wrapper in ember-core/shared/src/main/scala/org/http4s/ember/core/h2/Hpack.scala concatenates HEADERS and CONTINUATION frame fragments and decodes them into a single List, but maxHeaderSize accounting does not include indexed headers or HPACK per-header overhead. A small compressed header block can therefore expand into a much larger decoded representation that remains in memory for processing. Servers exposed to untrusted HTTP/2 traffic and clients directed to an untrusted HTTP/2 server are affected, and concurrent malicious connections can exhaust the process heap. This issue is fixed in versions 0.23.35 and 1.0.0-M47.","aliases":["GHSA-vmm3-xgcx-67hm"],"modified":"2026-08-30T03:30:29.878869238Z","published":"2026-08-26T14:10:22.349Z","database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/54xxx/CVE-2026-54556.json","cna_assigner":"GitHub_M","cwe_ids":["CWE-409"]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/http4s/http4s/releases/tag/v0.23.35"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/http4s/http4s/releases/tag/v1.0.0-M47"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/54xxx/CVE-2026-54556.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/http4s/http4s/security/advisories/GHSA-vmm3-xgcx-67hm"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54556"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/http4s/http4s/commit/6e8eccd64a6a74ab4811897881e95e0e1b3a818e"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/http4s/http4s","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"introduced":"756ce63aee681c5b632bbeafe0b8fde2f3d237f4"},{"fixed":"a83f5f4f7e14c5b4d4a91dd71b105cbbbb391298"},{"fixed":"c63fbff43dfe7e3bec25b789fd0a0027ec40ed62"},{"fixed":"6e8eccd64a6a74ab4811897881e95e0e1b3a818e"},{"fixed":"6083780a3009bd7b26033b0ceb3d32c658b0377e"}],"database_specific":{"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.23.35"},{"introduced":"1.0.0-M1"},{"fixed":"1.0.0-M46"}],"source":["AFFECTED_FIELD","REFERENCES"]}}],"versions":["v1.0.0-M46","v0.23.34","v0.23.33","v1.0.0-M45","v0.23.32","v0.23.31","v1.0.0-M44","v0.23.30","v1.0.0-M43","v1.0.0-M42","v0.23.29","v0.23.28","v0.23.27","v1.0.0-M41","v0.23.26","v0.23.25","v0.23.24","v0.23.23","v1.0.0-M40","v0.23.22","v0.23.20","v0.23.19","v0.23.19-RC2","v0.23.19-RC1","v1.0.0-M39","v0.23.18","v1.0.0-M37","v0.23.16","v1.0.0-M36","v0.23.15","v1.0.0-M35","v0.23.14","v1.0.0-M34","v0.23.13","v1.0.0-M33","v0.23.12","v1.0.0-M32","v0.23.11","v1.0.0-M31","v0.23.10","v0.23.9","v0.23.8","v1.0.0-M30","v0.23.7","v1.0.0-M29","v0.23.6","v0.23.5","v1.0.0-M28","v0.23.3","v1.0.0-M26","v0.23.2","v1.0.0-M24","v0.23.1","v0.23.0","v1.0.0-M22","v0.23.0-M1","v1.0.0-M21","v1.0.0-M20","v1.0.0-M19","v1.0.0-M17","v1.0.0-M16","v1.0.0-M15","v1.0.0-M13","v1.0.0-M12","v1.0.0-M11","v1.0.0-M10","v1.0.0-M9","v1.0.0-M8","v1.0.0-M7","v1.0.0-M6","v1.0.0-M5","v1.0.0-M4","v1.0.0-M3","v1.0.0-M2","v1.0.0-M1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-54556.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V4","score":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N"}]}