技能 编程开发 HTTP 请求走私漏洞挖掘

HTTP 请求走私漏洞挖掘

v20260927
hunt-http-smuggling
本技能涵盖识别和挖掘 HTTP 请求走私漏洞(CL.TE、TE.CL、H2.CL、H2.TE)。包括前端服务器指纹识别、缓存投毒载荷构建及通过后端不同步窃取凭证。需获得授权并遵循防御指导协议。
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概览

⚠️ AUTHORIZED USE ONLY This skill is for educational purposes or authorized security assessments only. You must have explicit, written permission from the system owner before using this tool. Misuse of this tool is illegal and strictly prohibited.

Mandatory confirmation gate Before running any command that probes, exploits, changes, persists on, extracts data from, or attempts credential access against a target:

  1. Ask the user to state the exact target URL, IP, account, or resource.
  2. Ask the user to confirm written authorization and the permitted scope.
  3. Show the exact command(s) and explain their expected effect.
  4. Wait for explicit confirmation in the current conversation.

Without that confirmation, remain read-only and provide defensive guidance only. Prefer a sandbox, disposable VM, or controlled lab.

HTTP REQUEST SMUGGLING

Lowest dup rate. $5K–$30K. PortSwigger research by James Kettle.

CL.TE (Content-Length front, Transfer-Encoding back)

POST / HTTP/1.1
Content-Length: 13
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

0

SMUGGLED

Detection

1. Burp extension: HTTP Request Smuggler
2. Right-click request → Extensions → HTTP Request Smuggler → Smuggle probe
3. Manual timing: CL.TE probe + ~10s delay = backend waiting for rest of body

Impact Chain

Poison next request → access admin as victim
Steal credentials → capture victim's session
Cache poisoning → stored XSS at scale

Target-Suitability Matrix (2026 reality check)

The classic CL.TE / TE.CL payloads are NOT universally exploitable in 2026. Modern proxies are RFC 9112 strict by default. Fingerprint the front-end BEFORE investing time.

Front-end CL.TE TE.CL H2.CL H2.TE Notes
Nginx ≥ 1.21 NO NO partial (H2 ingress) partial RFC-strict; rejects CL+TE with HTTP 400. Verified locally on Nginx 1.27 — all 9 documented variants killed by front-end (docs/verification/phase2h-smuggling-cachepoison.md).
Caddy 2.x NO NO — — Hardened by default
Envoy ≥ 1.20 NO NO partial partial Hardened in most paths
HAProxy ≤ 2.4 ✓ ✓ — — Vulnerable, see CVE-2021-40346
AWS ALB + specific upstream partial partial ✓ ✓ Several disclosed-paid reports 2022-2024
Cloudflare → S3 / Lambda chains — — ✓ ✓ H2-downgrade attacks remain viable
Older F5 BIG-IP (TMM < 16) ✓ — — — Vendor advisories
Citrix ADC / NetScaler (older firmware) ✓ ✓ — — Disclosed in 2020-2022
Squid 3.x ✓ — — — Older deployments
Apache Traffic Server (older) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ PortSwigger research
Apache mod_proxy_ajp → Tomcat — — — — Cross-protocol HTTP→AJP desync (CVE-2022-26377); smuggled request is opaque to the WAF and reaches internal AJP admin/status paths that lack the external auth controls
Custom Python / Go proxies ✓ ✓ — — Frequently miss RFC enforcement

Operator fingerprint quick-check

curl -sI https://target/ | grep -i "Server:"
  • nginx/1.21+, Caddy, envoy → CL/TE classic is dead — pivot to H2.CL/H2.TE if the front-end speaks HTTP/2, or look for legacy proxies upstream
  • HAProxy, header points to AWS/CDN → run the full payload matrix
  • No Server header → assume hardened, but run a single quick space-before-colon probe; if it doesn't 400, dig deeper

H2.CL / H2.TE (the modern dominant vector)

H2-downgrade smuggling attacks rely on the front-end speaking HTTP/2 to the client and HTTP/1.1 to origin. The downgrade introduces CL/TE confusion because HTTP/2's frame-length headers don't survive the conversion cleanly. Most CDN+origin chains in 2024-2026 use this exact topology.

Tools that send HTTP/2 raw frames (Burp Pro's HTTP Request Smuggler extension, h2csmuggler, smuggler.py) are the right starting point against CDN-fronted targets. Avoid HTTP/1.1-only test clients (curl, raw sockets) against H2-front-ended targets — you'll send the wrong protocol entirely.

Mass credential harvesting — the "collector gadget"

The highest-impact smuggling outcome needs no per-victim interaction. Instead of blindly poisoning the queue, smuggle a request aimed at a back-end handler that echoes the full request — a search endpoint that reflects headers, or a redirect that mirrors the request line. The next victim's headers (Cookie, Authorization, X-Access-Token) get attributed to your smuggled request, and the reflecting handler returns them in a response you read. Repeated on a busy keep-alive socket, this harvests live credentials from arbitrary users at scale — and it works even through a CDN (Akamai/Cloudflare) when the CDN↔origin hop desyncs. Chains to hunt-ato.


Related Skills & Chains

  • hunt-cache-poison — Smuggling + cache is the canonical critical chain; one smuggled request becomes the cached response for every subsequent victim. Chain primitive: CL.TE smuggle a request whose response body contains attacker HTML/JS → front-end cache stores it under a popular URL (/, /login) → de-sync poisoning where the smuggled request becomes the cached response for the next N victims, persisting for the cache TTL.
  • hunt-auth-bypass — Smuggling reaches internal-only routes that the front-end WAF/auth-proxy filters out. Chain primitive: smuggle GET /admin/users HTTP/1.1 past the front-end ACL that blocks external /admin/* → backend processes the smuggled request as if from a trusted internal source → bypass front-end auth by smuggling internal-routed request → admin data in the response queue.
  • hunt-idor — Smuggling attaches the NEXT user's session cookies to an attacker-controlled request path. Chain primitive: smuggle GET /api/me HTTP/1.1 with no cookies → backend pairs it with the next legitimate user's incoming connection cookies → victim's session cookie attached to attacker's smuggled request → attacker reads the response containing victim's PII/tokens.
  • hunt-xss — Smuggling injects XSS payloads into the response stream of the next victim without ever appearing in a URL parameter. Chain primitive: smuggled request body contains reflected payload that the backend renders into the next response in the queue → next visitor to / receives attacker HTML inline → reflected XSS at every visitor without any URL parameter visible to them or to logs.
  • security-arsenal — Reach for the smuggling payload bank (CL.TE / TE.CL / TE.TE obfuscations, H2.CL downgrade probes, h2csmuggler one-liners, Burp HTTP Request Smuggler extension config) and the time-delay confirmation template before manual hex-editing.
  • triage-validation — Run the Pre-Severity Gate before claiming Critical: the smuggled-request effect MUST land on a request issued by a different client/session, not your own follow-up. A timing delta in your own browser alone is parser disagreement, not exploitable smuggling.

When to Use

  • You have explicit, written authorization to assess the target in scope, and the task matches this skill's vulnerability class or technique within a bug-bounty or penetration-test engagement.
  • You need the recon, exploitation, or validation workflow described below — executed strictly inside the approved scope.

Limitations

  • Authorized scope only: the confirmation gate above is mandatory before any probing, exploitation, or credential-access command.
  • Docs-only import: upstream helper scripts, commands, engine, and research assets are not bundled; reinstall tooling from the source repo when needed.
  • Validate every finding (see triage-validation) before reporting; report via report-writing. Prefer a sandbox, disposable VM, or controlled lab.

Example

# Read-only first step; confirm scope before anything active.
cat scope.txt  # target list from the authorized engagement brief

Adapted from elementalsouls/Claude-BugHunter (MIT); frontmatter, When to Use/Limitations, and safety boundaries added for upstream compliance. Docs-only import: executable helpers, commands, engine, and research assets not bundled.

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Category 编程开发
Name hunt-http-smuggling
版本 v20260927
大小 7.67KB
更新时间 2026-09-28
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