CVE-2021-41084

8.7
HIGHCVSS v3.1 Base Score
1.23%
LOW RiskEPSS (68th percentile)

http4s is an open source scala interface for HTTP. In affected versions http4s is vulnerable to response-splitting or request-splitting attacks when untrusted user input is used to create any of the following fields: Header names (`Header.name`å), Header values (`Header.value`), Status reason phrases (`Status.reason`), URI paths (`Uri.Path`), URI authority registered names (`URI.RegName`) (through 0.21). This issue has been resolved in versions 0.21.30, 0.22.5, 0.23.4, and 1.0.0-M27 perform the following. As a matter of practice http4s services and client applications should sanitize any user input in the aforementioned fields before returning a request or response to the backend. The carriage return, newline, and null characters are the most threatening.

Published: 9/21/2021
Modified: 6/17/2026
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Vulnerability Summary

CVSS v3 Score

8.7HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2 Score

4.3

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS Score (Exploitation Probability)

1.23%LOW Exploitation Risk
68th percentile

This vulnerability has a 1.23% probability of being exploited in the next 30 days, ranking higher than 68% of all scored CVEs.

CWE Classification

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