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FKIE_CVE-2026-2836

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-03-05 00:15 - Updated: 2026-03-12 14:33

Severity ?

8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Summary

A cache poisoning vulnerability has been found in the Pingora HTTP proxy framework’s default cache key construction. The issue occurs because the default HTTP cache key implementation generates cache keys using only the URI path, excluding critical factors such as the host header (authority). Operators relying on the default are vulnerable to cache poisoning, and cross-origin responses may be improperly served to users. Impact 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, poison the cache so that users from one tenant receive cached responses from another tenant * Cache poisoning attacks: Serve malicious content to legitimate users by poisoning shared cache entries Cloudflare's CDN infrastructure was 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. Mitigation: We strongly recommend Pingora users to upgrade to Pingora v0.8.0 or higher, which removes the insecure default cache key implementation. Users must now explicitly implement their own callback that includes appropriate factors such as Host header, origin server HTTP scheme, and other attributes their cache should vary on. Pingora users on previous versions may also remove any of their default CacheKey usage and implement their own that should at minimum include the host header / authority and upstream peer’s HTTP scheme.

References

	URL	Tags
	cna@cloudflare.com	https://github.com/cloudflare/pingora	Product

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	cloudflare	pingora	*

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CVE-2026-2836 (GCVE-0-2026-2836)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-04 23:44 – Updated: 2026-03-06 18:24

Title

Cache poisoning via insecure-by-default cache key

Summary

Severity ?

8.4 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N

CWE

CWE-345 - Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Assigner

cloudflare

References

URL

Tags

https://github.com/cloudflare/pingora

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Cloudflare	https://github.com/cloudflare/pingora	Affected: 0 , < 0.8.0 (semver)

Credits

Rajat Raghav (xclow3n)

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CVE-2026-2836 (GCVE-0-2026-2836)

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