CVE-2026-6338

Severity CVSS v4.0:

MEDIUM

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

11/06/2026

Last modified:

11/06/2026

Description

A HTTP request smuggling and desynchronization vulnerability affects Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.4, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, and 3.14 series. The vulnerability is caused by a parsing flaw in Kong’s HTTP request processing pipeline when handling untrusted HTTP/1.1 traffic.

Impact

Vector 4.0

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N/E:P/R:A/RE:M CVSS v4.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.90 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N/E:P/R:A/RE:M

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Attack Requirements (AT): Present
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Confidentiality (VC): None
Integrity (VI): None
Availability (VA): None
Confidentiality (SC): High
Integrity (SI): High
Availability (SA): None
Recovery (R): Automatic
Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Moderate
Exploit Maturity (E): POC

Base Score 4.0

4.90

Severity 4.0

MEDIUM

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://support.konghq.com/support/s/article/CVE-2026-6338