criticalVulnerability

GHSA-f9v3-j2m7-4hpg

### Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-xq2h-p299-vjwv. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ### Original Description 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.

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-f9v3-j2m7-4hpg
severity
critical
summary
Duplicate Advisory: HTTP Request Smuggling via Premature Upgrade
cve_id
GHSA-f9v3-j2m7-4hpg
is_ghsa_only
true
ghsa_published
2026-03-05T00:31:11Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f9v3-j2m7-4hpg
ghsa_updated
2026-03-05T20:55:00Z

Related Entities (3)

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]rust/pingora-core

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

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