CRLF injection in Cpp-httplib
Priority LOW 31CWE-113Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Active
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
cpp-httplib version v0.17.3 through v0.18.3 fails to filter CRLF characters ("\r\n") when those are prefixed with a null byte. This enables attackers to exploit CRLF injection that could further lead to HTTP Response Splitting, XSS, and more.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00409 35th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-0825
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-65rj-829h-6g8x
References
More yhirose Cpp-httplib vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-33163 cpp-httplib: HTTP header value percent-decoding in server-side `parse_header` enables CRLF injection CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
- TI-2026-18294 cpp-httplib vulnerable to a denial of service (DOS) using a zip bomb CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-17313 cpp-httplib has CRLF injection in http headers CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.7
- TI-2026-33146 cpp-httplib DoS: Negative chunk-size in chunked Transfer-Encoding CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-22709 Uncontrolled resource consumption in yhirose cpp-httplib CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2025-33556 cpp-httplib Unbounded Memory Allocation in Chunked/No-Length Requests Vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2025-0825 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-0825 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-65rj-829h-6g8x · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2025-0825 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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