Cloudflare pingora up to 0.7.x HTTP request smuggling

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Cloudflare pingora up to 0.7.x. The affected element is an unknown function of the component HTTP Handler. Performing a manipulation results in request smuggling. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2026-2833. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Cloudflare pingora up to 0.7.x. This affects an unknown code of the component HTTP Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a request smuggling vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An HTTP request smuggling vulnerability (CWE-444) was found in Pingora's handling of HTTP/1.1 connection upgrades. The issue occurs when a Pingora proxy reads a request containing an Upgrade header, causing the proxy to pass through the rest of the bytes on the connection to a backend before the backend has accepted the upgrade. An attacker can thus directly forward a malicious payload after a request with an Upgrade header to that backend in a way that may be interpreted as a subsequent request header, bypassing proxy-level security controls and enabling cross-user session hijacking. Impact This vulnerability primarily affects standalone Pingora deployments where a Pingora proxy is exposed to external traffic. An attacker could exploit this to: * Bypass proxy-level ACL controls and WAF logic * Poison caches and upstream connections, causing subsequent requests from legitimate users to receive responses intended for smuggled requests * Perform cross-user attacks by hijacking sessions or smuggling requests that appear to originate from the trusted proxy IP Cloudflare's CDN infrastructure was not affected by this vulnerability, as ingress proxies in the CDN stack maintain proper HTTP parsing boundaries and do not prematurely switch to upgraded connection forwarding mode. Mitigation: Pingora users should upgrade to Pingora v0.8.0 or higher As a workaround, users may return an error on requests with the Upgrade header present in their request filter logic in order to stop processing bytes beyond the request header and disable downstream connection reuse.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-2833 since 02/19/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading to version 0.8.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at CNNVD (CNNVD-202603-586) and EUVD (EUVD-2026-9510). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• Cloud Software

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• Cloudflare

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• pingora

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• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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