CVE-2026-56853: high-severity vulnerability in Go standard library net/http
Apply ReadHeaderTimeout when doing unencrypted HTTP/2 check in net/http
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.6%
When a server is configured to support unencrypted HTTP/2, it reads a few bytes from each new connection to see if they contain the HTTP/2 client preface. ReadHeaderTimeout is unexpectedly not being applied when doing this.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Go standard library · net/httpRelated CVEs — Go standard library net/http
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CVE-2023-45288HIGHHTTP/2 CONTINUATION flood in net/httpEPSS 92.0%CVE-2022-41717—Excessive memory growth in net/http and golang.org/x/net/http2EPSS 6.1%CVE-2022-41723HIGHDenial of service via crafted HTTP/2 stream in net/http and golang.org/x/netEPSS 4.6%CVE-2023-39325—HTTP/2 rapid reset can cause excessive work in net/httpEPSS 3.8%CVE-2026-39821CRITICALInvoking failure to reject ASCII-only Punycode-encoded labels in golang.org/x/net/idnaEPSS 1.8%CVE-2022-1705MEDIUMImproper sanitization of Transfer-Encoding headers in net/httpEPSS 1.5%