# CVE-2026-69205: Http4s: Ember Transfer-Encoding value parsing (TE.CL / TE.0 request smuggling)

- Also known as: GHSA-9998-894R-FWVR
- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.23.35, 1.0.0-M47
- Published: 2026-09-15 · Updated: 2026-09-15

## Affected

- http4s: fixed in 0.23.35; from 1.0.0-M1, fixed in 1.0.0-M47
- org.http4s:http4s-ember-core\_3 (Maven): fixed in 0.23.35
- org.http4s:http4s-ember-core\_2.13 (Maven): fixed in 0.23.35
- org.http4s:http4s-ember-core\_2.12 (Maven): fixed in 0.23.35
- org.http4s:http4s-ember-core\_2.13 (Maven): from 1.0.0-M1, fixed in 1.0.0-M47
- org.http4s:http4s-ember-core\_3 (Maven): from 1.0.0-M1, fixed in 1.0.0-M47

## Description

Http4s is a Scala interface for HTTP services. Prior to 0.23.35 and 1.0.0-M47, Ember’s HeaderP.parse uses a case-sensitive substring test for the Transfer-Encoding value and decodes header bytes with the platform default charset. Values such as Chunked are not recognized, values such as notchunked are incorrectly accepted, and Unicode case folding can turn a Kelvin-sign byte sequence into a match when UTF-8 is used. Intermediaries that apply RFC-compliant token and charset rules can therefore disagree with Ember’s Content-Length or zero-length framing, enabling TE.CL or TE.0 request smuggling, access-control bypass, cross-user request hijacking, and cache poisoning on the server path. Response smuggling through an ember-client gateway requires a malicious or compromised upstream. This issue is fixed in versions 0.23.35 and 1.0.0-M47.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on http4s, org.http4s:http4s-ember-core\_3, org.http4s:http4s-ember-core\_2.13 or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (0.23.35, 1.0.0-M47) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/http4s/http4s/security/advisories/GHSA-9998-894r-fwvr
- https://github.com/http4s/http4s/commit/5e88b2e7b4e6ea2f0c61040a4bc9de0d73e51217
- https://github.com/http4s/http4s/releases/tag/v0.23.35
- https://github.com/http4s/http4s/releases/tag/v1.0.0-M47

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