Security Advisory

CVE-2025-14523

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-12-11 12:30:59
Last updated 2026-06-29 20:30:40
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

A flaw in libsoup’s HTTP header handling allows multiple Host: headers in a request and returns the last occurrence for server-side processing. Common front proxies often honor the first Host: header, so this mismatch can cause vhost confusion where a proxy routes a request to one backend but the backend interprets it as destined for another host. This discrepancy enables request-smuggling style attacks, cache poisoning, or bypassing host-based access controls when an attacker supplies duplicate Host headers.