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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2026-48979

PHP Standard Library: HTTP/2 server-side missing content-length validation enables request smuggling

Description

PHP Standard Library (PSL) is set of APIs covering async, collections, networking, I/O, cryptography, terminal UI, etc. In versions 6.1.0, 6.1.1 and 6.2.0, the Psl\H2\ServerConnection does not validate that the total bytes received in DATA frames match the content-length header declared in the HEADERS frame, allowing request smuggling. This is in violation of RFC 9113 §8.1.1. A malicious client is able to send more DATA bytes than declared, smuggling additional content past application-level size limits and send fewer DATA bytes than declared and close the stream early, causing applications that trust the declared length to behave incorrectly. The vulnerability is only reachable for consumers using Psl\H2\ServerConnection directly to accept untrusted client traffic. Consumers of documented high-level PSL APIs are not affected. This issue has been fixed in versions 6.1.2 and 6.2.1.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

php-standard-library php-standard-library

  • >= 6.1.0, < 6.1.2affected
  • >= 6.2.0, < 6.2.1affected

php-standard-library php-standard-library/h2

  • >= 6.1.0, < 6.1.2affected
  • >= 6.2.0, < 6.2.1affected

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