vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-a92dcc5c-e05c-11e9-b589-10c37b4ac2ea (CVE-2019-16276): go -- invalid headers are normalized, allowing request smuggling

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 26, 2019
Added
Sep 29, 2019
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

The Go project reports: net/http (through net/textproto) used to accept and normalize invalid HTTP/1.1 headers with a space before the colon, in violation of RFC 7230. If a Go server is used behind a reverse proxy that accepts and forwards but doesn't normalize such invalid headers, the reverse proxy and the server can interpret the headers differently. This can lead to filter bypasses or request smuggling, the latter if requests from separate clients are multiplexed onto the same connection by the proxy. Such invalid headers are now rejected by Go servers, and passed without normalization to Go client applications.

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