GHSA-mp2g-9vg9-f4cg
h3 v1 has Request Smuggling (TE.TE) issue
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Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
I was digging into h3 v1 (specifically v1.15.4) and found a critical HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability.
Basically, `readRawBody` is doing a strict case-sensitive check for the Transfer-Encoding header. It explicitly looks for "chunked", but per the RFC, this header should be case-insensitive.
**The Bug**: If I send a request with Transfer-Encoding: ChuNked (mixed case), h3 misses it. Since it doesn't see "chunked" and there's no Content-Length, it assumes the body is empty and processes the request immediately.
This leaves the actual body sitting on the socket, which triggers a classic TE.TE Desync (Request Smuggling) if the app is running behind a Layer 4 proxy or anything that doesn't normalize headers (like AWS NLB or Node proxies).
**Vulnerable Code** (`src/utils/body.ts`):
```js
if (
!Number.parseInt(event.node.req.headers["content-length"] || "") &&
!String(event.node.req.headers["transfer-encoding"] ?? "")
.split(",")
.map((e) => e.trim())
.filter(Boolean)
.includes("chunked") // <--- This is the issue. "ChuNkEd" returns false here.
) {
return Promise.resolve(undefined);
}
```
I verified this locally:
- Sent a `Transfer-Encoding: ChunKed` request without a closing 0 chunk.
- Express hangs (correctly waiting for data).
- h3 responds immediately (vulnerable, thinks body is length 0).
**Impact**: Since H3/Nuxt/Nitro is often used in containerized setups behind TCP load balancers, an attacker can use this to smuggle requests past WAFs or desynchronize the socket to poison other users' connections.
**Fix**: Just need to normalize the header value before checking: ` .map((e) => e.trim().toLowerCase())`
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/h3js/h3/security/advisories/GHSA-mp2g-9vg9-f4cg
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-23527
- https://github.com/h3js/h3/commit/618ccf4f37b8b6148bea7f36040471af45bfb097
- https://github.com/h3js/h3
- https://github.com/h3js/h3/releases/tag/v1.15.5
- https://simonkoeck.com/writeups/h3-transfer-encoding-request-smuggling