SSE event injection via unsanitized carriage returns
Published Sep 6, 2026 · Updated Sep 8, 2026
SSE injection in UnJS H3 before 1.15.9 and 2.0.0-beta.0 through 2.0.1-rc.16 allows remote attackers to inject browser-parsed events. EventStream formatting splits data and comments only on newline characters, leaving carriage returns for browsers to treat as SSE line boundaries. Exploitation requires an application to pass attacker-controlled content to push or pushComment; injected directives can spoof event types or split one message into multiple events.
Summary
What happened
SSE injection in UnJS H3 before 1.15.9 and 2.0.0-beta.0 through 2.0.1-rc.16 allows remote attackers to inject browser-parsed events. EventStream formatting splits data and comments only on newline characters, leaving carriage returns for browsers to treat as SSE line boundaries. Exploitation requires an application to pass attacker-controlled content to push or pushComment; injected directives can spoof event types or split one message into multiple events.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-86252
- Published
- Sep 6, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 8, 2026
- Vendor
- UnJS
- Product
- H3
- Classifications
- CWE-74, T1659
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 6, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 8, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <1.15.9
- Affected versionversion=2.0.0-beta.0 <2.0.1-rc.17
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Attacks
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Public exploit references
- GHSA-4hxc-9384-m385 EventStream proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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