Guzzle: Noncanonical host can bypass host-based checks
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.
Summary
Guzzle is an extensible PHP HTTP client. Prior to 7.15.2 and 8.0.1, Guzzle gives a transport the request URI as text and supplies the Host header separately. The cURL handlers set CURLOPT_URL to the URI exactly as written and push that Host into CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER; StreamHandler does the same through fopen(). libcurl then parses the authority itself, percent-decoding it and, on an IDN-capable build, applying IDNA mapping, and uses the result to resolve, connect, name the TLS peer and address a proxy CONNECT, while the supplied Host suppresses the aligned one libcurl would have generated. For a URI host written as 127.0.0.%31, filter_var() rejects the host as an IP literal, yet libcurl decodes it to 127.0.0.1 and reaches loopback with no DNS lookup while the server receives Host: 127.0.0.%31. An attacker who influences a fetched URI can therefore reach a host the application's checks excluded and read whatever the host exposes of the response. The same divergence moves Guzzle's own decisions onto a spelling the transport does not use: no_proxy selects proxy routing from the literal host, and RedirectMiddleware decides from it whether to strip Authorization and Cookie. Exploitation requires the application to build a request URI from untrusted input and to make a host decision before handing it to Guzzle. This issue is fixed in versions 7.15.2 and 8.0.1.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| guzzle | guzzle | 8.0.0 to before 8.0.1; before 7.15.2 | 8.0.1, 7.15.2 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | guzzlehttp/guzzle (Packagist) | before 7.15.2 | 7.15.2 | Patch available | GHSA-v5mv-p594-2x33 |
| — | guzzlehttp/guzzle (Packagist) | 8.0.0 to before 8.0.1 | 8.0.1 | Patch available | GHSA-v5mv-p594-2x33 |
- guzzle Vendorguzzle Affected 8.0.0 to before 8.0.1; before 7.15.2 Fixed in 8.0.1, 7.15.2 Patch available CNA
- guzzlehttp/guzzle (Packagist) Vendor— Affected before 7.15.2 Fixed in 7.15.2 Patch available GHSA-v5mv-p594-2x33
- guzzlehttp/guzzle (Packagist) Vendor— Affected 8.0.0 to before 8.0.1 Fixed in 8.0.1 Patch available GHSA-v5mv-p594-2x33
Remediation
- Fix · CNA guzzle (guzzle) Fixed in 8.0.1, 7.15.2
- Fix · GHSA-v5mv-p594-2x33 guzzlehttp/guzzle (Packagist) Fixed in 7.15.2 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-v5mv-p594-2x33 guzzlehttp/guzzle (Packagist) Fixed in 8.0.1 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-69246
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-v5mv-p594-2x33
References
Other 8
- https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle/security/advisories/GHSA-v5mv-p594-2x33
- https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle/pull/3907
- https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle/pull/3908
- https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle/commit/3aeea0406aab88cbbd86531313d7cebf8ae149a4
- https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle/commit/744101956d78b7c1384d0cbf379db13e859167bf
- https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle/releases/tag/7.15.2
- https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle/releases/tag/8.0.1
- https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle
More guzzle vulnerabilities
- TI-2022-08589 Improper Input Validation in guzzlehttp/psr7 CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2022-13088 Fix failure to strip Authorization header on HTTP downgrade in Guzzle CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2022-13087 Failure to strip the Cookie header on change in host or HTTP downgrade in Guzzle CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2023-13898 Laminas Diactoros vulnerable to HTTP Multiline Header Termination CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2022-11789 Cross-domain cookie leakage in Guzzle CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
- TI-2026-47649 guzzlehttp/guzzle before 7.15.1 Unbounded Cookie Denial of Service CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
Sources
- CVE-2026-69246 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-69246 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-v5mv-p594-2x33 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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