Vulnerability · Published Aug 7, 2025 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2025-32094
Medium 4.0
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in AkamaiGhost from Akamai. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 48% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
An issue was discovered in Akamai Ghost, as used for the Akamai CDN platform before 2025-03-26. Under certain circumstances, a client making an HTTP/1.x OPTIONS request with an "Expect: 100-continue" header, and using obsolete line folding, can lead to a discrepancy in how two in-path Akamai servers interpret the request, allowing an attacker to smuggle a second request in the original request body.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Akamai | AkamaiGhost | 0 – before 2025-03-26 |
Weakness: CWE-444 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
References
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/100
- https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9112.html#name-obsolete-line-folding
- https://www.akamai.com/blog/security/cve-2025-32094-http-request-smuggling
- https://www.blackhat.com/us-25/briefings/schedule/#http1-must-die-the-desync-endgame-45103