# CVE-2025-54142

> CVE-2025-54142. CVSS 4.0 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-54142
Last updated: 2026-10-18T21:10:00Z

- Published: 2025-08-29 00:00 UTC · Updated: 2026-10-18 21:10 UTC · Assigner: mitre
- CVSS: 4.0 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
- EPSS: 0.27%, 18th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-444

## Description

Akamai Ghost before 2025-07-21 allows HTTP Request Smuggling via an OPTIONS request that has an entity body, because there can be a subsequent request within the persistent connection between an Akamai proxy server and an origin server, if the origin server violates certain Internet standards.

## Affected vendors and products

- Akamai: AkamaiGhost

## Tracked companies

- [Akamai](https://rewindex.com/company/akamai.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54142)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54142)
- [https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/feed/0D5a700000W51m8CAB](https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/feed/0D5a700000W51m8CAB)
- [https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/advisory-cve-2025-54142-http-request-smuggling-via-options-body](https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/advisory-cve-2025-54142-http-request-smuggling-via-options-body)

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_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-54142 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-54142.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-54142 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T03:13:36.772Z