Higress before 2.2.4 panics when processing a Cookie header segment without an equals sign, causing the plugin wrapper to recover and return a continue action that bypasses AI token rate limiting. Unauthenticated attackers can craft a malformed Cookie header to skip rate limit checks and exceed thresholds intended to restrict costly model backend calls.

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Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:45:00 +0000

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Description Higress before 2.2.4 panics when processing a Cookie header segment without an equals sign, causing the plugin wrapper to recover and return a continue action that bypasses AI token rate limiting. Unauthenticated attackers can craft a malformed Cookie header to skip rate limit checks and exceed thresholds intended to restrict costly model backend calls.
Title Higress before 2.2.4 Rate Limit Bypass via Malformed Cookie Header
Weaknesses CWE-703
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-16T20:32:46.062Z

Reserved: 2026-09-16T19:31:53.563Z

Link: CVE-2026-92790

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-16T21:17:28.480

Modified: 2026-09-16T21:17:28.480

Link: CVE-2026-92790

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