# CVE-2026-55767: Guzzle: Dot-Only Cookie Domains Match All Hosts in guzzlehttp/guzzle

- Also known as: GHSA-CWXW-98QJ-8QJX
- Severity: CVSS 5.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.12.1
- Published: 2026-06-23 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- guzzle: fixed in 7.12.1
- guzzlehttp/guzzle (Packagist): fixed in 7.12.1

## Description

Guzzle is an extensible PHP HTTP client. Prior to 7.12.1, CookieJar incorrectly accepts cookies with a dot-only Domain attribute and whitespace-padded variants. SetCookie::matchesDomain() removes leading dots from the cookie domain, normalizing dot-only values to the empty string; SetCookie::validate() only rejected a strictly empty domain, so these cookies could be stored and the empty normalized domain was treated as matching any request host. An attacker-controlled origin that an application requests with a shared cookie jar can therefore set a cookie that Guzzle later sends to unrelated hosts using the same jar. This may allow cookie injection or session fixation against downstream services, depending on how those services interpret the injected cookie. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.12.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on guzzle, guzzlehttp/guzzle, upgrade to a fixed version (7.12.1) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle/security/advisories/GHSA-cwxw-98qj-8qjx
- https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle/pull/3653
- https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle/commit/7f537cded1912349abf5081258d6db19106d774d
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/guzzlehttp/guzzle/CVE-2026-55767.yaml
- https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle/releases/tag/7.12.1

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