CVE-2026-78663

Double flow control refund on HTTP/2 server streams in net/http

Published Oct 8, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 9.1 Critical EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
The HTTP/2 server can refund connection-level flow control twice for the same data: Once when a client resets a stream (refunding data for any sent-but-unread portion of the stream), and again when a request handler reads the buffered data. A malicious client can exploit this to bypass the configured connection-level flow control limit (MaxReceiveBufferPerConnection). Total buffered data is still limited by the concurrent stream limit and stream-level flow control.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8935-1 Go vulnerabilities
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-675
Metrics cvssV3_1

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

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-399
Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-770
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

cvssV3_1

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

threat_severity

Moderate

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Go Standard Library
Go Standard Library net/http
Go Standard Library net/http2
Vendors & Products Go Standard Library
Go Standard Library net/http
Go Standard Library net/http2
Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-399
Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The HTTP/2 server can refund connection-level flow control twice for the same data: Once when a client resets a stream (refunding data for any sent-but-unread portion of the stream), and again when a request handler reads the buffered data. A malicious client can exploit this to bypass the configured connection-level flow control limit (MaxReceiveBufferPerConnection). Total buffered data is still limited by the concurrent stream limit and stream-level flow control.
Title Double flow control refund on HTTP/2 server streams in net/http
References
Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Go
Published
Updated
Oct 9, 2026, 4:42 PM
Reserved
Aug 24, 2026, 11:36 PM
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
Oct 8, 2026, 11:17 PM
Modified
Oct 9, 2026, 5:16 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Oct 8, 2026, 10:53 PM