CVE-2025-12642 (GCVE-0-2025-12642)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-03 19:36 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:44
VLAI
Title
HTTP Header Smuggling via Trailer Merge
Summary
lighttpd1.4.80 incorrectly merged trailer fields into headers after http request parsing. This behavior can be exploited to conduct HTTP Header Smuggling attacks. Successful exploitation may allow an attacker to: * Bypass access control rules * Inject unsafe input into backend logic that trusts request headers * Execute HTTP Request Smuggling attacks under some conditions This issue affects lighttpd1.4.80
Severity
6.9 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-444 - Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
lighttpd lighttpd Affected: 1.4.80 , < 1.4.81 (custom)
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Credits
Sebastiano Sartor <@sebsrt>
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