ubuntu-cve-2026-31870
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
cpp-httplib is a C++11 single-file header-only cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library. Prior to 0.37.1, when a cpp-httplib client uses the streaming API (httplib::stream::Get, httplib::stream::Post, etc.), the library calls std::stoull() directly on the Content-Length header value received from the server with no input validation and no exception handling. std::stoull throws std::invalid_argument for non-numeric strings and std::out_of_range for values exceeding ULLONG_MAX. Since nothing catches these exceptions, the C++ runtime calls std::terminate(), which kills the process with SIGABRT. Any server the client connects to — including servers reached via HTTP redirects, third-party APIs, or man-in-the-middle positions can crash the client application with a single HTTP response. No authentication is required. No interaction from the end user is required. The crash is deterministic and immediate. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.37.1.
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"0.14.3+ds-1.1ubuntu0.1~esm1",
"0.14.3+ds-1.1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
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},
{
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"binary_name": "libcpp-httplib0.26",
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}
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},
"package": {
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"name": "cpp-httplib",
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"0.26.0+ds-2ubuntu2",
"0.26.0+ds-2ubuntu3",
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}
],
"aliases": [],
"details": "cpp-httplib is a C++11 single-file header-only cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library. Prior to 0.37.1, when a cpp-httplib client uses the streaming API (httplib::stream::Get, httplib::stream::Post, etc.), the library calls std::stoull() directly on the Content-Length header value received from the server with no input validation and no exception handling. std::stoull throws std::invalid_argument for non-numeric strings and std::out_of_range for values exceeding ULLONG_MAX. Since nothing catches these exceptions, the C++ runtime calls std::terminate(), which kills the process with SIGABRT. Any server the client connects to \u2014 including servers reached via HTTP redirects, third-party APIs, or man-in-the-middle positions can crash the client application with a single HTTP response. No authentication is required. No interaction from the end user is required. The crash is deterministic and immediate. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.37.1.",
"id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-31870",
"modified": "2026-06-25T11:17:01Z",
"published": "2026-03-11T18:16:00Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-31870"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31870"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-httplib/security/advisories/GHSA-39q5-hh6x-jpxx"
}
],
"related": [],
"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "medium",
"type": "Ubuntu"
}
],
"upstream": [
"CVE-2026-31870"
]
}
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