CVE-2026-69209: HTTP4S

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Http4s is a Scala interface for HTTP services. Prior to 0.23.35 and 1.0.0-M47, The shared WebSocket decoder permits unbounded message buffering because defragmentation accumulates fragments without a limit and FrameTranscoder accepts declared lengths up to Int.MaxValue. A remote client that completes a WebSocket handshake against an http4s-blaze-server or http4s-ember-server endpoint can exhaust server memory with oversized frames or fragmented messages. The patched decoder applies a configurable 64 MiB default limit to individual frames and defragmented messages through EmberServerBuilder.withMaxWebSocketMessageSize. This issue is fixed in versions 0.23.35 and 1.0.0-M47.

Affected products

• HTTP4S HTTP4S: before 0.23.35 (fixed in 0.23.35); from 1.0.0-M1, before 1.0.0-M47 (fixed in 1.0.0-M47)

Published 2026-09-15. Last modified 2026-09-16.