CVE-2026-32881
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CVE-2026-32881 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 5.3/10 on the CVSS scale. ewe is a Gleam web server. ewe is a Gleam web server. EPSS estimates a 0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
ewe is a Gleam web server. ewe is a Gleam web server. Versions 0.6.0 through 3.0.4 are vulnerable to authentication bypass or spoofed proxy-trust headers. Chunked transfer encoding trailer handling merges declared trailer fields into req.headers after body parsing, but the denylist only blocks 9 header names. A malicious client can exploit this by declaring these headers in the Trailer field and appending them after the final chunk, causing request.set_header to overwrite legitimate values (e.g., those set by a reverse proxy). This enables attackers to forge authentication credentials, hijack sessions, bypass IP-based rate limiting, or spoof proxy-trust headers in any downstream middleware that reads headers after ewe.read_body is called. This issue has been fixed in version 3.0.5.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Vshakitskiy | Ewe | < 3.0.5 |
References
- https://github.com/vshakitskiy/ewe/releases/tag/v3.0.5Patch, Product
- https://github.com/vshakitskiy/ewe/security/advisories/GHSA-9w88-79f8-m3vpExploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
Timeline
- Published
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- Status
- Analyzed
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