Hey list,
You can remotely crash httpx v1.7.0 (by ProjectDiscovery) by serving a
malformed <title> tag on your website. The bug is a classic out-of-bounds read
in trimTitleTags() due to a missing bounds check when slicing the title string.
It panics with:
panic: runtime error: slice bounds out of range [9:6]
Affects anyone using httpx in their automated scanning pipeline. One malformed
HTML response = scanner down. Unit testing or fuzzing this function would’ve
caught it in 5 minutes. But it’s “just a bug.” 😂
💥 Trigger input:
<title</></title>0
📍 Vulnerable code:
func trimTitleTags(title string) string {
titleBegin := strings.Index(title, ">")
titleEnd := strings.Index(title, "</")
if titleEnd < 0 || titleBegin < 0 {
return title
}
return title[titleBegin+1 : titleEnd] // ← PANIC here
}
✅ Fix:
https://github.com/projectdiscovery/httpx/pull/2198
📂 PoC + context:
https://github.com/projectdiscovery/httpx/issues/2197
Crash scanners. Create blind spots. Chain with HTML injection. Happy hunting.
Stay glitchy,
—geeknik
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