diff --git a/DEPENDENCIES b/DEPENDENCIES
index 54193cb8..532b72d5 100644
--- a/DEPENDENCIES
+++ b/DEPENDENCIES
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ noa https://github.com/sourcemeta/noa caad2e1ceedf9fd1a18686a6a6d1e2b9757ead75
 jsontoolkit https://github.com/sourcemeta/jsontoolkit 2d78929faf0f96110edfb67fa3ddf6916cf35ef7
 bearssl https://www.bearssl.org/git/BearSSL 8ef7680081c61b486622f2d983c0d3d21e83caad
 zlib https://github.com/madler/zlib 51b7f2abdade71cd9bb0e7a373ef2610ec6f9daf
-uwebsockets https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets v20.68.0
+uwebsockets https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets v20.69.0
 googletest https://github.com/google/googletest 987e225614755fec7253aa95bf959c09e0d380d7
 curl https://github.com/curl/curl curl-8_10_1
diff --git a/vendor/uwebsockets/src/HttpParser.h b/vendor/uwebsockets/src/HttpParser.h
index cf86cd2b..b94aa33e 100644
--- a/vendor/uwebsockets/src/HttpParser.h
+++ b/vendor/uwebsockets/src/HttpParser.h
@@ -390,6 +390,7 @@ struct HttpParser {
             /* We should not accept whitespace between key and colon, so colon must foloow immediately */
             if (postPaddedBuffer[0] != ':') {
                 /* Error: invalid chars in field name */
+                err = HTTP_ERROR_400_BAD_REQUEST;
                 return 0;
             }
             postPaddedBuffer++;
@@ -406,6 +407,7 @@ struct HttpParser {
                         continue;
                     }
                     /* Error - invalid chars in field value */
+                    err = HTTP_ERROR_400_BAD_REQUEST;
                     return 0;
                 }
                 break;
@@ -437,6 +439,9 @@ struct HttpParser {
                         return (unsigned int) ((postPaddedBuffer + 2) - start);
                     } else {
                         /* \r\n\r plus non-\n letter is malformed request, or simply out of search space */
+                        if (postPaddedBuffer != end) {
+                            err = HTTP_ERROR_400_BAD_REQUEST;
+                        }
                         return 0;
                     }
                 }