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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.1 Critical

CVE-2026-78663

Double flow control refund on HTTP/2 server streams in net/http

Description

The HTTP/2 server can refund connection-level flow control twice for the same data: Once when a client resets a stream (refunding data for any sent-but-unread portion of the stream), and again when a request handler reads the buffered data. A malicious client can exploit this to bypass the configured connection-level flow control limit (MaxReceiveBufferPerConnection). Total buffered data is still limited by the concurrent stream limit and stream-level flow control.

Affected products

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

Go standard library net/http

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 1.26.9affected

Go standard library net/http/internal/http2

Default version status: unaffected

  • 1.27.0-0 to < 1.27.2affected

golang.org/x/net golang.org/x/net/http2

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 0.60.0affected

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