Akamai Ghost on Akamai CDN edge servers before 2026-02-06 mishandles processing of custom hop-by-hop HTTP headers, where an incoming request containing the header "Connection: Transfer-Encoding" could result in a forward request with invalid message framing, depending on the Akamai processing path. This could result in the origin server parsing the request body incorrectly, leading to HTTP request smuggling.
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| Description | Akamai Ghost on Akamai CDN edge servers before 2026-02-06 mishandles processing of custom hop-by-hop HTTP headers, where an incoming request containing the header "Connection: Transfer-Encoding" could result in a forward request with invalid message framing, depending on the Akamai processing path. This could result in the origin server parsing the request body incorrectly, leading to HTTP request smuggling. | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-444 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2026-02-23T08:22:05.446Z
Reserved: 2026-02-13T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2026-26365
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-02-23T09:17:01.210
Modified: 2026-02-23T18:13:53.397
Link: CVE-2026-26365
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-02-23T14:28:35Z