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GHSA-f93w-pcj3-rggc
No affected components available
Impact
Pingora versions prior to 0.8.0 generated cache keys using only the URI path, excluding critical factors such as the host header. This allows an attacker to poison the cache and serve cross-origin responses to users.
This vulnerability affects users of Pingora's alpha proxy caching feature who relied on the default CacheKey implementation. An attacker could exploit this for cross-tenant data leakage in multi-tenant deployments, or serve malicious content to legitimate users by poisoning shared cache entries.
Note: Cloudflare customers and Cloudflare's CDN infrastructure were not affected by this vulnerability, as Cloudflare's default cache key implementation uses multiple factors to prevent cache key poisoning and never made use of the previously provided default.
Patches
We strongly suggest users should upgrade to Pingora v.0.8.0 or higher, which removes the default CacheKey implementation.
Workarounds
Do not rely on the provided CacheKey default, and at minimum use the host / :authority and the upstream peer TLS scheme as part of building the CacheKey, as well as other factors that may apply to the deployment e.g. HTTP method.
References
See CVE-2026-2836 and the Cloudflare blog post for more details.
Credits
Disclosed responsibly by Rajat Raghav (@xclow3n) through the Cloudflare Bug Bounty Program.
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights.
Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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