Medium
Security advisory
Improved Host header checks to reject requests not sent to a well-known local hostname or IP, or the server-specified hostname.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-4138
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Improved Host header checks to reject requests not sent to a well-known local hostname or IP, or the server-specified hostname.
osv:CVE-2021-4138
Complete source record
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