Medium 4.0Published Aug 28, 2025

CVE-2025-54142Akamai 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 Akam…

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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.

CVSS: 4.0 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-444
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: mitre
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Aug 29, 2025
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 18, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Akamai AkamaiGhost akamai:akamaighost (from the name)	before 2025-07-21	CNA record

References

References

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

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