CVE-2026-44546

A flaw was found in daphne. This vulnerability arises from a parser differential where daphne reconstructs HTTP requests from Twisted's headers, but Twisted and autobahn handle certain header line separators differently. An attacker can exploit this to inject additional headers into the ASGI...

GHSA-XH68-HFP5-5X5M daphne: WebSocket handshake header smuggling through autobahn splitlines() mishandling of non-standard line separators

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...