# CVE-2025-66577: cpp-httplib Untrusted HTTP Header Handling: X-Forwarded-For/X-Real-IP Trust

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.27.0
- Published: 2025-12-05 · Updated: 2025-12-05

## Affected

- yhirose cpp-httplib: fixed in 0.27.0

## Description

cpp-httplib is a C++11 single-file header-only cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library. Prior to 0.27.0, a vulnerability allows attacker-controlled HTTP headers to influence server-visible metadata, logging, and authorization decisions. An attacker can supply X-Forwarded-For or X-Real-IP headers which get accepted unconditionally by get_client_ip() in docker/main.cc, causing access and error logs (nginx_access_logger / nginx_error_logger) to record spoofed client IPs (log poisoning / audit evasion). This vulnerability is fixed in 0.27.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on yhirose cpp-httplib, upgrade to a fixed version (0.27.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-httplib/security/advisories/GHSA-gfpf-r66f-5mh2
- https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-httplib/commit/ac9ebb0ee333ce8bf13523f487bdfad9518a2aff

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