CVE-2026-32881

ewe has an Overly Permissive List of Allowed Inputs

Published Mar 20, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 5.3 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
ewe is a Gleam web server. ewe is a Gleam web server. Versions 0.6.0 through 3.0.4 are vulnerable to authentication bypass or spoofed proxy-trust headers. Chunked transfer encoding trailer handling merges declared trailer fields into req.headers after body parsing, but the denylist only blocks 9 header names. A malicious client can exploit this by declaring these headers in the Trailer field and appending them after the final chunk, causing request.set_header to overwrite legitimate values (e.g., those set by a reverse proxy). This enables attackers to forge authentication credentials, hijack sessions, bypass IP-based rate limiting, or spoof proxy-trust headers in any downstream middleware that reads headers after ewe.read_body is called. This issue has been fixed in version 3.0.5.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-9w88-79f8-m3vp Permissive List of Allowed Inputs in ewe
History
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CPEs cpe:2.3:a:vshakitskiy:ewe:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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First Time appeared Vshakitskiy
Vshakitskiy ewe
Vendors & Products Vshakitskiy
Vshakitskiy ewe
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Description ewe is a Gleam web server. ewe is a Gleam web server. Versions 0.6.0 through 3.0.4 are vulnerable to authentication bypass or spoofed proxy-trust headers. Chunked transfer encoding trailer handling merges declared trailer fields into req.headers after body parsing, but the denylist only blocks 9 header names. A malicious client can exploit this by declaring these headers in the Trailer field and appending them after the final chunk, causing request.set_header to overwrite legitimate values (e.g., those set by a reverse proxy). This enables attackers to forge authentication credentials, hijack sessions, bypass IP-based rate limiting, or spoof proxy-trust headers in any downstream middleware that reads headers after ewe.read_body is called. This issue has been fixed in version 3.0.5.
Title ewe has an Overly Permissive List of Allowed Inputs
Weaknesses CWE-183
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Mar 20, 2026, 8:03 PM
Reserved
Mar 16, 2026, 9:03 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Mar 20, 2026, 2:16 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 10:36 AM