CVE-2026-43966

Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Request/Response Splitting') vulnerability in ninenines cowlib allows HTTP response splitting via non-VCHAR bytes in structured-fields string values. cow_http_struct_hd:escape_string/2 in cowlib only escapes \ and ", passing all other bytes through verbatim. This creates an encoder/decoder asymmetry: the matching parser accepts only printable ASCII (0x20–0x7E, excluding " and \), but the encoder emits any byte including CR and LF. An application that builds a structured HTTP header via cow_http_struct_hd:item/1 (or a higher-level wrapper such as cow_http_hd:wt_protocol/1) from attacker-controlled input can have \r\n injected into the serialized header value. Once on the wire, the injected CRLF terminates the current header and any following bytes are interpreted as a new header, enabling HTTP response splitting. This issue affects cowlib from 2.9.0.

• CWE-113

• https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-43966.htmlThird Party Advisory
• https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy/commit/f77cb9b5e730e300fffb551db1ba5d1c4ed878efPatch
• https://github.com/ninenines/gun/commit/4f35609eb37109b106a863fc9ba83d7ee64e3e42Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-43966Third Party Advisory

Published

Jun 8, 2026

Last Modified

Aug 17, 2026

Status

Analyzed

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