Akamai Ghost 2025-03-26/2025-07-21/2025-11-17 Custom Hop-by-Hop HTTP Header request smuggling

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Akamai Ghost. It has been declared as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Custom Hop-by-Hop HTTP Header Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to request smuggling. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-26365. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. This product is a managed service, which means users themselves cannot handle vulnerability countermeasures. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Akamai Ghost. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component Custom Hop-by-Hop HTTP Header Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a request smuggling vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-444. 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. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

Akamai Ghost on Akamai CDN edge servers before 2026-02-06 mishandles processing of custom hop-by-hop HTTP headers, where an incoming request containing the header "Connection: Transfer-Encoding" could result in a forward request with invalid message framing, depending on the Akamai processing path. This could result in the origin server parsing the request body incorrectly, leading to HTTP request smuggling.

The advisory is available at akamai.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-26365 since 02/13/2026. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 2026-02-06 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Productinfo

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Request smuggling
CWE: CWE-444
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Upgrade: Ghost 2026-02-06

Timelineinfo

02/06/2026 Countermeasure disclosed
02/13/2026 +7 days CVE reserved
02/23/2026 +10 days Advisory disclosed
02/23/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
02/23/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: akamai.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2026-26365 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-26365
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-347374

Entryinfo

Created: 02/23/2026 10:32
Changes: 02/23/2026 10:32 (65)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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