cpp-httplib: cpp-httplib is a C++11 single-file header-only cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library
CVE-2025-66570 is fixed in 4 products on 1 platform, first by libcpp-httplib0 0.10.3+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1, released December 5, 2025. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Urgent.
cpp-httplib is a C++11 single-file header-only cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library. Prior to 0.27.0, a vulnerability allows attacker-controlled HTTP headers to influence server-visible metadata, logging, and authorization decisions. An attacker can inject headers named REMOTE_ADDR, REMOTE_PORT, LOCAL_ADDR, LOCAL_PORT that are parsed into the request header multimap via read_headers() in httplib.h (headers.emplace), then the server later appends its own internal metadata using the same header names in Server::process_request without erasing duplicates. Because Request::get_header_value returns the first entry for a header key (id == 0) and the client-supplied headers are parsed before server-inserted headers, downstream code that uses these header names may inadvertently use attacker-controlled values. Affected files/locations: cpp-httplib/httplib.h (read_headers, Server::process_request, Request::get_header_value, get_header_value_u64) and cpp-httplib/docker/main.cc (get_client_ip, nginx_access_logger, nginx_error_logger). Attack surface: attacker-controlled HTTP headers in incoming requests flow into the Request.headers multimap and into logging code that reads forwarded headers, enabling IP spoofing, log poisoning, and authorization bypass via header shadowing. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.27.0.
Where it's fixed
| Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | |||
| cpp-httplib · Debian 14 | 0.41.0+ds-3 | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-66570 | Dec 5, 2025 |
| cpp-httplib · opensuse-leap 16.0 | 0.22.0-160000.3.1 | OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20056-1 | Jan 15, 2026 |
| cpp-httplib · sles 16.0 | 0.22.0-160000.3.1 | SUSE-SU-2026:20090-1 | Jan 15, 2026 |
| libcpp-httplib0 · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) | 0.10.3+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | libcpp-httplib0 0.10.3+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | Dec 5, 2025 |
| libcpp-httplib0.14t64 · Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS (noble) | 0.14.3+ds-1.1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | libcpp-httplib0.14t64 0.14.3+ds-1.1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | Dec 5, 2025 |
| libcpp-httplib0.18 · Ubuntu 25.10 (questing) | 0.18.7-1ubuntu0.25.10.1 | libcpp-httplib0.18 0.18.7-1ubuntu0.25.10.1 | Dec 5, 2025 |
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