# CVE-2026-44452: h2o is vulnerable to heap overrun

- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 8dc37cb
- Published: 2026-07-16 · Updated: 2026-07-17

## Affected

- h2o: fixed in 8dc37cb

## Description

h2o is an HTTP server with support for HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Prior to commit 8dc37cb, when h2o receives a ClientHello message over TLS or QUIC and it contains a zero-length SNI extension, the h2o server runs over the zero-length hostname while trying to copy the hostname, assuming that it is NULL-terminated. This is a potential denial-of-service attack vector in sense that it might trigger segmentation violation. This issue has been fixed by commit 8dc37cb.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on h2o, upgrade to a fixed version (8dc37cb) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/h2o/h2o/security/advisories/GHSA-w68q-rqwx-7wvq
- https://github.com/h2o/h2o/commit/8dc37cb1e6171f7f772667618ea440696fed82c3

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