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[GHSA] GHSA-6hr6-w5qg-qmwg (medium) — h2: Duplicate Host header could facilitate request smuggling

medgithub_advisoriesPublished 2026-08-06

GHSA-6hr6-w5qg-qmwg Severity: medium CVE: CVE-2026-71554

h2: Duplicate Host header could facilitate request smuggling

### Impact h2 <=4.4.0 accepts request header blocks containing more than one Host header, and forwards every Host header to the consuming application. Where the consumer downgrades HTTP/2 to HTTP/1.1, the resulting request carries two Host header lines, which is a request smuggli

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Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6hr6-w5qg-qmwg