Description
Guzzle is an extensible PHP HTTP client. Prior to 7.15.2 and 8.0.1, Guzzle gives a transport the request URI as text and supplies the Host header separately. The cURL handlers set CURLOPT_URL to the URI exactly as written and push that Host into CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER; StreamHandler does the same through fopen(). libcurl then parses the authority itself, percent-decoding it and, on an IDN-capable build, applying IDNA mapping, and uses the result to resolve, connect, name the TLS peer and address a proxy CONNECT, while the supplied Host suppresses the aligned one libcurl would have generated. For a URI host written as 127.0.0.%31, filter_var() rejects the host as an IP literal, yet libcurl decodes it to 127.0.0.1 and reaches loopback with no DNS lookup while the server receives Host: 127.0.0.%31. An attacker who influences a fetched URI can therefore reach a host the application's checks excluded and read whatever the host exposes of the response. The same divergence moves Guzzle's own decisions onto a spelling the transport does not use: no_proxy selects proxy routing from the literal host, and RedirectMiddleware decides from it whether to strip Authorization and Cookie. Exploitation requires the application to build a request URI from untrusted input and to make a host decision before handing it to Guzzle. This issue is fixed in versions 7.15.2 and 8.0.1.
References7
- github.com/guzzle/guzzle/commit/3aeea0406aab88cbbd86531313d7ceb…
- github.com/guzzle/guzzle/commit/744101956d78b7c1384d0cbf379db13…
- github.com/guzzle/guzzle/pull/3907
- github.com/guzzle/guzzle/pull/3908
- github.com/guzzle/guzzle/releases/tag/7.15.2
- github.com/guzzle/guzzle/releases/tag/8.0.1
- github.com/guzzle/guzzle/security/advisories/GHSA-v5mv-p594-2x33
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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7.2
HIGH
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 31 · as of 13 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-180CWE-436CWE-918CWE-941
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