CVE-2026-73257
Mongoose is an embedded web server and network library. Priro to version 7.22, a remote unauthenticated attacker can send an HTTP request containing both Content-Length and Transfer-Encoding: chunked. The clcount and tecount checks in the mghttpparse() and http_cb() paths in src/http.c accept both headers and prioritize chunked encoding, while a Content-Length-preferring reverse proxy can use a different request boundary. This CL.TE desynchronization can inject requests that access or modify resources in another user context. This issue is fixed in version 7.22.
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https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/releases/tag/7.22, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/73xxx/CVE-2026-73257.json, https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/security/advisories/GHSA-5wfq-r6mr-wqp6, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-73257, https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/commit/a9df523f76f43a38bd53b4232b9cfd4c16869e71, https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/pull/3611