fkie_nvd - fkie_cve-2025-54142

fkie_cve-2025-54142

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-08-29 01:15

Modified

2025-08-29 16:24

Severity ?

4.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

Summary

Akamai Ghost before 2025-07-21 allows HTTP Request Smuggling via an OPTIONS request that has an entity body, because there can be a subsequent request within the persistent connection between an Akamai proxy server and an origin server, if the origin server violates certain Internet standards.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	cve@mitre.org	https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/feed/0D5a700000W51m8CAB
	cve@mitre.org	https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/advisory-cve-2025-54142-http-request-smuggling-via-options-body

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2025-54142 (GCVE-0-2025-54142)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-08-29 00:00

Modified

2025-08-29 14:27

Severity ?

4.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

CWE

CWE-444 - Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')

Summary

Akamai Ghost before 2025-07-21 allows HTTP Request Smuggling via an OPTIONS request that has an entity body, because there can be a subsequent request within the persistent connection between an Akamai proxy server and an origin server, if the origin server violates certain Internet standards.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/feed/0D5a700000W51m8CAB
	https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/advisory-cve-2025-54142-http-request-smuggling-via-options-body

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Akamai	AkamaiGhost	Version: 0 < 2025-07-21

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