An issue was discovered in Akamai Ghost, as used for the Akamai CDN platform before…
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA AkamaiGhost (Akamai) Fixed in 2025-03-26
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-32094
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-mhw9-v228-5c8f
References
Other 4
- 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
More Akamai vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-31529 Akamai CloudTest before 60 2025.06.02 (12988) allows file inclusion via XML External Entity (XXE) injection. CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.8
- TI-2008-01698 CRLF injection vulnerability in Akamai Download Manager ActiveX control before 2.2.3.6… CVSS 2.0HIGH 9.3
- TI-2019-08229 Akamai CloudTest before 58.30 allows remote code execution. CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2019-13582 Enterprise Access Client Auto-Updater allows for Remote Code Execution prior to version 2.0.1. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2016-08233 Akamai NetSession 1.9.3.1 is vulnerable to DLL Hijacking: it tries to load CSUNSAPI.dll… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-73755 Guardicore Platform Agent JWT flaw enables resource injection CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.5
Sources
- CVE-2025-32094 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-32094 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-mhw9-v228-5c8f · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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