CVE-2026-44546 LOW

CVE-2026-44546: Header injection via WebSocket upgrade parser differential allows ASGI scope header spoofing

Vendor Djangoproject
Product daphne
Weakness CWE-444
Published June 3, 2026
Last update June 3, 2026

CVSS base score

3.7/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 3, 2026 CVE published
June 3, 2026 Record updated