CVE-2025-54142

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

29/08/2025

Last modified:

29/08/2025

Description

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.

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