CVE-2026-26365

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

23/02/2026

Last modified:

23/02/2026

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.00 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

4.00

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/cve-2026-26365-incorrect-processing-connection-transfer-encoding