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CVE-2026-69203: Http4s Ember HTTP/2: does not enforce SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-15 · updated 2026-09-16
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

Http4s is a Scala interface for HTTP services. Prior to 0.23.35 and 1.0.0-M47, An Ember server with HTTP/2 enabled through withHttp2 does not enforce SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS for peer-created streams. One unauthenticated connection can open an unbounded number of streams, each retaining per-stream state until heap exhaustion. The same unchecked allocation is reachable in an ember-client through server-initiated PUSH_PROMISE frames because enablePush is not enforced. This issue is fixed in versions 0.23.35 and 1.0.0-M47.

Affected products

• http4s: before 0.23.35; from 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M47

References

• https://github.com/http4s/http4s/commit/4983de1f93f2caaa3b9de310cf6a9db32c50d66e
• https://github.com/http4s/http4s/releases/tag/v0.23.35
• https://github.com/http4s/http4s/releases/tag/v1.0.0-M47
• https://github.com/http4s/http4s/security/advisories/GHSA-9vwc-pc8p-253q

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