# CVE-2026-66752: tiny-http 0.12.0 HTTP Request Smuggling via Transfer-Encoding Handling

- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:L/SA:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2026-07-28 · Updated: 2026-08-14

## Affected

- tiny-http: through 0.12.0

## Description

tiny-http through 0.12.0 contains an HTTP request smuggling vulnerability that allows remote attackers to desynchronize request framing by sending a Transfer-Encoding header with any value, including non-chunked codings, which causes the library to unconditionally apply chunk-decoding and discard Content-Length. Attackers can exploit the discrepancy between tiny_http's improper Transfer-Encoding parsing and a correctly-implemented front-end proxy to produce two distinct interpretations of a single byte stream, enabling request smuggling, and can additionally send non-chunked bodies with non-chunked Transfer-Encoding values to cause failed body reads that tie up connections and consume worker threads without signaling errors to clients.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on tiny-http, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/theopaid/HTTP-Request-Smuggling-via-Unparsed-Transfer-Encoding-Values-tiny_http-/tree/master
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/tiny-http-http-request-smuggling-via-transfer-encoding-handling
- https://github.com/theopaid/CVE-2026-66752-HTTP-Request-Smuggling-via-Unparsed-Transfer-Encoding-Values-tiny_http-

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