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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-73494"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-14T17:33:49.671Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-14T20:05:52.181Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-73494"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-73494.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-73494"
title: "blaze: Multiple HTTP/1.1 request-smuggling primitives in blaze's Java wire parser"
summary: "blaze is a Scala library for building asynchronous pipelines, with a focus on network IO. Prior to 0.23.18 and from 1.0.0-M1 until 1.0.0-M42, five HTTP/1.1 conformance laxities in the hand-written Java parser under http/src/main/java/org/http4s/blaze/http/parser/ can cause blaze to derive a different request boundary than a stricter fronting intermediary. A default BlazeServerBuilder accepts invalid or valueless header field names that violate tchar syntax, obsolete folded field lines (obs-fold), unsupported Transfer-Encoding values, duplicate Content-Length fields, and requests containing both Transfer-Encoding and Content-Length. If a lenient or legacy proxy forwards the malformed bytes but interprets them differently, the disagreement can permit front-end authorization bypass, response-queue poisoning on pooled backend connections, or cache poisoning. Exploitation requires a pair of disagreeing parsers; no non-default blaze configuration is required. The affected checks are enforced in BodyAndHeaderParser and Http1ServerParser. This issue is fixed in versions 0.23.18 and 1.0.0-M42."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"\u003c 0.23.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 1.0.0-M1, \u003c 1.0.0-M42","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"http4s","product":"blaze"},{"versions":[{"version":"\u003c 0.23.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 1.0.0-M1, \u003c 1.0.0-M42","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"org.http4s","product":"blaze-http_2.13"},{"versions":[{"version":"\u003c 0.23.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 1.0.0-M1, \u003c 1.0.0-M42","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"org.http4s","product":"blaze-http_3"},{"versions":[{"version":"\u003c 0.23.18","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"org.http4s","product":"http4s-blaze-server_2.13"}]

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