High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in zeek version 4.1.0. There is a HTTP request splitting vulnerability that will invalidate any ZEEK HTTP based security analysis. NOTE: the vendor's position is that the observed behavior is intended
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-41732
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:58 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in zeek version 4.1.0. There is a HTTP request splitting vulnerability that will invalidate any ZEEK HTTP based security analysis. NOTE: the vendor's position is that the observed behavior is intended
osv:CVE-2021-41732
Complete source record
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