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CVE-2025-54142
Akamai Ghost before 2025-07-21 allows HTTP Request Smuggling via an OPTIONS request that has an entity body, because there can be a…
Medium4.0EPSS 0.27%
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| mitreCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.27% · top 81% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected < 2025-07-21
References (2)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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