An attacker can force WebSocket upgrade via the lax V07 (or V08) handshaker by sending Sec-WebSocket-Version: 7 and omitting Connection: Upgrade / Upgrade: websocket headers, completing a protocol switch that a proxy would not recognize as an Upgrade request and enabling HTTP request smuggling / protocol-confusion attacks.
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"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-444"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2026-07-22T21:48:59Z",
"nvd_published_at": null,
"severity": "MODERATE"
}