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CVE-2025-54142

MEDIUM
4
CVSS Score
Published: August 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: October 18, 2026 at 09:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGhost

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Severity
MEDIUM4
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
No known exploit

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Ghost· Akamai
90%
0 ≤ v < 2025-07-210
Affected range stops below 2025-07-21, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (2)

Source: [email protected]
https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/feed/0D5a700000W51m8CAB
Source: [email protected]
https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/advisory-cve-2025-54142-http-request-smuggling-via-options-body

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

4MEDIUMmitre
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-444

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