CVE-2026-66731
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
facil.io 0.7.5 through 0.7.6 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in the HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer encoding parser that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to crash the server by sending a negative chunk size value. Attackers can send a single POST request with a Transfer-Encoding: chunked header containing a leading minus sign in the chunk size field, causing the parser in http1_parser.h to compute a large positive integer from the negated value, corrupting internal state and moving the read pointer into unmapped memory resulting in a fault.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
8.7
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Deferred
Source identifier
Published
2026-07-27 17:16:42.793000
Last modified
2026-10-24 13:10:00.147000
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