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Granian vulnerable to DoS via WSGI response header panic — CVE-2026-42545

GitHub · GitHub · CVE-2026-42545

ID
CVE-2026-42545
Date
Updated
Activity
Source
GitHub
Vendor
GitHub
Threat
medium
CVSS
5.9
EPSS
0.0004

Summary

### Summary Granian aborts a worker process if a WSGI application returns an invalid HTTP response header name or value. The WSGI response conversion path uses `.unwrap()` on both the header name and header value constructors, so malformed output from the application becomes a process abort instead of a handled error. This issue requires a buggy or attacker-influenced WSGI application to emit invalid headers. It is…

Product

pip: granian

What to do

General, cautious steps (verify details in the official source):

  • Review exposure and plan remediation based on risk and environment.
  • Identify affected product versions in your inventory and verify whether you are impacted.
  • Apply vendor patches/updates or recommended mitigations as soon as available.
  • Read the official advisory for exact affected versions and remediation steps.

Official advisory

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