CVE-2026-44546
LOWHeader injection via WebSocket upgrade parser differential allows ASGI scope header spoofing
Title source: cnaDescription
daphne before 4.2.2 reconstructs a raw HTTP request from Twisted's parsed headers and feeds it to autobahn for WebSocket handshake processing. Twisted does not treat \x0b, \x0c, \x1c, \x1d, \x1e, or \x85 as header line separators, but autobahn decodes header values to str and calls splitlines(). An attacker can exploit this parser differential to inject additional headers into the ASGI scope passed to the application. daphne now rejects requests with these bytes in any header value with a 400 response.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Release Notes release-notes
https://github.com/django/daphne/blob/main/CHANGELOG.txt
Scores
CVSS v3
3.7
EPSS
0.0017
EPSS Percentile
6.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-444
Status
published
Products (3)
djangoproject/daphne
< 4.2.2
djangoproject/daphne
4.2.0 - 4.2.1
djangoproject/daphne
4.2.2
Published
Jun 03, 2026
Tracked Since
Jun 03, 2026