CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2024-33452 — Openresty Lua-Nginx-Module security vulnerability
High
CVSS 7.7
An issue in OpenResty lua-nginx-module v.0.10.26 and before allows a remote attacker to conduct HTTP request smuggling via a crafted HEAD request.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.7 (3.1)
- Published
- 2025-04-22
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-444
Affected products
- openresty / lua-nginx-module
Matched remediation archetype
HTTP request smuggling and message-boundary ambiguity
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Check exposure
- Inventory every proxy, CDN, gateway, load balancer, service mesh, and application server hop on affected request paths.
- Compare documented parsing and normalization behavior for message length, transfer coding, duplicate headers, and protocol translation.
- Identify connection reuse and which downstream services trust headers added by intermediaries.
Remediate safely
- Update affected intermediaries and origin servers and align them on a single standards-compliant request framing policy.
- Reject ambiguous length, transfer-coding, duplicate, malformed, and unsupported framing before forwarding.
- Normalize or remove hop-by-hop and identity headers at one controlled boundary and add multi-hop regression tests.
Authoritative sources
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