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Fencer Vulns
low 3.7

CVE-2026-44546 json

Header injection via WebSocket upgrade parser differential allows ASGI scope header spoofing

published 2026-06-03 5 mo ago modified 2026-07-22 3 mo ago also GHSA-xh68-hfp5-5x5m , PYSEC-2026-214 , EUVD-2026-34092

cvss
3.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 6%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

daphne before 4.2.2 reconstructs a raw HTTP request from Twisted's parsed headers and feeds it to autobahn for WebSocket handshake processing. Twisted does not treat \x0b, \x0c, \x1c, \x1d, \x1e, or \x85 as header line separators, but autobahn decodes header values to str and calls splitlines(). An attacker can exploit this parser differential to inject additional headers into the ASGI scope passed to the application. daphne now rejects requests with these bytes in any header value with a 400 response.

Patch / fix

  • pypi daphne 4.2.2
  • djangoproject daphne 4.2.2
  • python-daphne Debian 13 4.1.2-2+deb13u1
  • python-daphne Debian 14 4.2.2-0.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-44546

  • py3-daphne Alpine 3.24 4.2.3-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-44546

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-44546 updated cvss 3.7

daphne: daphne: Information disclosure via header injection due to parser differential

  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 automation-controller, ansible-automation-platform-25/lightspeed-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-26/lightspeed-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-27/controller-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-27/lightspeed-rhel9, +2 more
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
5 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
OSV 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi daphne
<4.2.2
4.2.2

Affected products

  • djangoproject daphne

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.