CVE-2026-49756 – Multipart form-data header injection in Req via unescaped name/filename/content_type

CVE ID :CVE-2026-49756

Published : June 8, 2026, 4:16 p.m. | 17 minutes ago

Description :Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences (‘CRLF Injection’) vulnerability in wojtekmach Req allows multipart parameter smuggling via attacker-influenced part metadata.

Req.Utils.encode_form_part/2 in lib/req/utils.ex builds the per-part headers by interpolating the caller-supplied name, filename, and content_type values directly into the content-disposition and content-type lines with no escaping or CRLF stripping. A value containing “, r, or n closes the surrounding quoted value and starts a new header line; an additional rn– terminates the current part and prepends a smuggled part of the attacker’s choosing.

This is reachable through every supported way of supplying a part. It is particularly easy when value is a %File.Stream{}, because filename then defaults to Path.basename(stream.path) and POSIX filenames may legitimately contain r and n. Any application that forwards user-controlled filenames (or field names / MIME types) through Req.post/2 with form_multipart: lets an attacker inject arbitrary headers into the outgoing multipart body or smuggle additional fields and parts into the request the victim service sends downstream.

This issue affects req: from 0.5.3 before 0.6.0.

Severity: 2.1 | LOW

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