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GHSA-3qmp-g57h-rxf2

Duplicate Advisory: Pingora Request Smuggling and Cache Poisoning

High Withdrawn Jun 20, 2025 crates.io
Severity
0.0 / 10
High · CVSS 4.0
Exploit chance (EPSS)
—
No score published
Known exploited
No
Not in CISA's catalog
Weakness
CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
Fix
0.5.0
Upgrade pingora-core to this version or later

Description

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-93c7-7xqw-w357. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

Pingora versions prior to 0.5.0 which used the caching functionality in pingora-proxy did not properly drain the downstream request body on cache hits.

This allows an attacker to craft malicious HTTP/1.1 requests which could lead to request smuggling or cache poisoning.

This flaw was corrected in commit fda3317ec822678564d641e7cf1c9b77ee3759ff by ensuring that the downstream request body is always drained before a connection can be reused.

See the blog post for more information.

Affected versions

crates.io

PackageVulnerableFixed in
pingora-core
< 0.5.0
0.5.0

How to fix

Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.

pingora-core crates.io → 0.5.0

cargo
cargo update -p pingora-core --precise 0.5.0

Severity breakdown

CVSS 4.0 0.0

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

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Attack requirements
Present
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Active
Confidentiality (vulnerable system)
High
Integrity (vulnerable system)
High
Availability (vulnerable system)
None
Confidentiality (subsequent systems)
Low
Integrity (subsequent systems)
Low
Availability (subsequent systems)
None

Weakness

CWE-444: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')

The product acts as an intermediary HTTP agent (such as a proxy or firewall) in the data flow between two entities such as a client and server, but it does not interpret malformed HTTP requests or responses in ways that are consistent with how the messages will be processed by those entities that are at the ultimate destination.

How to prevent it
  • Implementation: Use a web server that employs a strict HTTP parsing procedure, such as Apache [REF-433].
  • Implementation: Use only SSL communication.
  • Implementation: Terminate the client session after each request.
  • System Configuration: Turn all pages to non-cacheable.

References

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. Last updated by the source
  3. Withdrawn
AdvisorySeverityWhy it's related
RUSTSEC-2026-0388
Pingora HTTP/2 :authority and Host header mismatch enables cache poisoning and host-based access control bypass
Not rated yet Also affects pingora-core
RUSTSEC-2026-0389
Pingora HTTP/2 server memory exhaustion through unbounded default header-list and concurrent-stream limits
High Also affects pingora-core
GHSA-xq2h-p299-vjwv
Pingora vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling via Premature Upgrade
Critical Also affects pingora-core
GHSA-hj7x-879w-vrp7
Pingora has HTTP Request Smuggling via HTTP/1.0 and Transfer-Encoding Misparsing
Critical Also affects pingora-core
GHSA-393w-9x6h-8gc7
Pingora update for MadeYouReset HTTP/2 vulnerability
High Also affects pingora-core
RUSTSEC-2025-0070
Pingora MadeYouReset HTTP/2 vulnerability
High Also affects pingora-core
GHSA-93c7-7xqw-w357
Pingora has a Request Smuggling Vulnerability
Medium Also affects pingora-core
EEF-CVE-2026-114216
Chunk extensions accept bare LF and CR, enabling request smuggling in Bandit
Not rated yet Same weakness, CWE-444
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