CVE-2025-4366CWE-444

Request Smuggling Vulnerability in Pingora

High · published May 22, 2025

CVSS v4.0
7.4
EPSS
1%
Percentile
44.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A request smuggling vulnerability identified within Pingora’s proxying framework, pingora-proxy, allows malicious HTTP requests to be injected via manipulated request bodies on cache HITs, leading to unauthorized request execution and potential cache poisoning.

Fixed in:  https://github.com/cloudflare/pingora/commit/fda3317ec822678564d641e7cf1c9b77ee3759ff https://github.com/cloudflare/pingora/commit/fda3317ec822678564d641e7cf1c9b77ee3759ff

Impact: The issue could lead to request smuggling in cases where Pingora’s proxying framework, pingora-proxy, is used for caching allowing an attacker to manipulate headers and URLs in subsequent requests made on the same HTTP/1.1 connection.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
7.4 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
EPSS
0.00536 · 44.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-444 · Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
Published
2025-05-22T15:50Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 MAY 15:50Z
    Request Smuggling Vulnerability in Pingora
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