GHSA-262p-vjx5-45xh: Duplicate Advisory HTTP Request Smuggling Vulnerability

CRITICAL
CWE-444
Published
Advisory Summary

GHSA-262p-vjx5-45xh is a CRITICAL http request smuggling vulnerability (CWE-444: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')) affecting Duplicate Advisory libraries in the crates.io ecosystem. The issue involves http request smuggling via http/1.0 and transfer-encoding misparsing. Remediation is available by upgrading affected packages to version 0.8.0.

GHSA-262p-vjx5-45xh at a Glance

CVE Identifier N/A
GHSA Identifier GHSA-262p-vjx5-45xh
Severity CRITICAL
CVSS v3.1 Base Score N/A
CWE Classification CWE-444: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
Affected Product Duplicate Advisory
Package Ecosystem crates.io
Published Date
Last Updated

How to Fix GHSA-262p-vjx5-45xh

To remediate this vulnerability, upgrade all affected Duplicate Advisory dependencies to a patched release. Both direct and transitive dependencies should be checked, as frameworks or security libraries may pull in vulnerable versions transitively.

pingora-core fixed: 0.8.0
Upgrade pingora-core to 0.8.0
Verify Direct and Transitive Dependencies

Run the following command in your project directory to verify that all resolved dependencies use the patched release:

inspect dependencies for pingora-core

How to Check if You Are Affected

To determine whether your application is affected by GHSA-262p-vjx5-45xh, inspect your project dependencies for Duplicate Advisory:

inspect dependencies for pingora-core

Analyze the terminal output to locate any version of Duplicate Advisory in your dependency tree. If any resolved version matches the vulnerable ranges listed in the table below (for example, versions earlier than 0.8.0), your application is affected.

Note: Verify declared build manifests and deployed runtime container environments.

Technical Details

Vulnerability Mechanism & Technical Analysis

This vulnerability is classified under CWE-444: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling'), where 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. In Duplicate Advisory, software state validation or input boundaries are circumvented during processing. Review the official source advisory statement below for specific affected components, classes, and reproduction details.

Source Advisory Statement

### Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-hj7x-879w-vrp7. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ### Original Description An HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability (CWE-444) has been found in Pingora's parsing of HTTP/1.0 and Transfer-Encoding requests. The issue occurs due to improperly allowing HTTP/1.0 request bodies to be close-delimited and incorrect handling of multiple Transfer-Encoding values, allowing attackers to send HTTP/1.0 requests in a way that would desync Pingora’s request framing from backend servers’. Impact This vulnerability primarily affects standalone Pingora deployments in front of certain backends that accept HTTP/1.0 requests. An attacker could craft a malicious payload following this request that Pingora forwards to the backend in order 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 its ingress proxy layers forwarded HTTP/1.1 requests only, rejected ambiguous framing such as invalid Content-Length values, and forwarded a single Transfer-Encoding: chunked header for chunked requests. Mitigation: Pingora users should upgrade to Pingora v0.8.0 or higher that fixes this issue by correctly parsing message length headers per RFC 9112 and strictly adhering to more RFC guidelines, including that HTTP request bodies are never close-delimited. As a workaround, users can reject certain requests with an error in the request filter logic in order to stop processing bytes on the connection and disable downstream connection reuse. The user should reject any non-HTTP/1.1 request, or a request that has invalid Content-Length, multiple Transfer-Encoding headers, or Transfer-Encoding header that is not an exact “chunked” string match.

GHSA-262p-vjx5-45xh Affected Duplicate Advisory Versions

1 component(s)
Fixed Versions:
0.8.0
Product / Package Ecosystem Affected Versions Fixed Version
pingora-core
crates.io
< 0.8.0
0.8.0

References

Frequently Asked Questions

What is GHSA-262p-vjx5-45xh?
GHSA-262p-vjx5-45xh is a security vulnerability in Duplicate Advisory involving HTTP Request Smuggling via HTTP/1.0 and Transfer-Encoding Misparsing under CWE-444: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling').
Which Duplicate Advisory versions are affected?
Affected versions include releases prior to 0.8.0 across affected packages: pingora-core.
What version fixes GHSA-262p-vjx5-45xh?
Upgrading to 0.8.0 (or the latest patched release for your respective branch) resolves the vulnerability.
Is pingora-core affected?
Yes, pingora-core is affected in releases prior to 0.8.0. Upgrade your dependency to 0.8.0 or later.
What CWE is associated with GHSA-262p-vjx5-45xh?
GHSA-262p-vjx5-45xh is classified under CWE-444: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling') (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.).
How can I check crates.io dependencies for GHSA-262p-vjx5-45xh?
Run the dependency tree command: 'inspect dependencies for pingora-core'. This command lists direct and transitive dependencies in your build configuration so you can verify if a vulnerable version is resolved.
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