CVE-2026-38969: Ruby Webrick Chunked Trailer Injectioncve-2026-38969-ruby-webrick-chunked-trailer-injection
WEBrick indiscriminately appends HTTP chunked trailers to the raw request headers buffer and parses them in conjunction with the primary request headers using HTTPUtils::parse_header. This bypasses the trailer/header boundary and allows trailers to overwrite authoritative headers like Content-Length or Host, enabling HTTP Request Smuggling. The patch cleanly