{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2026-73256","details":"Mongoose is an embedded web server and network library. Prior to 7.22, a remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit an HTTP/1.0 reverse-proxy deployment by sending a request with Transfer-Encoding: chunked and conflicting framing. The http_cb() function in src/http.c tests hm.proto.len with an impossible greater-than-eight condition even though mg_http_parse() requires an eight-byte protocol string, so is_http_1_0 is never set. Mongoose consequently processes chunked encoding that an HTTP/1.0 proxy can ignore, enabling request smuggling and unauthorized access or state changes. This issue is fixed in version 7.22.","modified":"2026-10-17T13:01:01.762941207Z","published":"2026-08-20T18:16:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2026-73256"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-73256"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-73256"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"mongoose","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:26.10","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/mongoose?arch=source&distro=stonking"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["7.21+ds-1","7.21+ds-2","7.22+ds-1","7.23+ds-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"mongoose-webserver-source","binary_version":"7.23+ds-1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-73256.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}