# Puma HTTP Request/Response Smuggling vulnerability

Advisory record · `GHSA-68xg-gqqm-vgj8`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-68xg-gqqm-vgj8` · `CVE-2023-40175`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 7.3 High
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-444](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/444.html)
- **Tags:** [HTTP request smuggling](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/request-smuggling.md)
- **Published:** 18 Aug 2023
- **Updated:** 10 Sept 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 18 Aug 2023, 21:50 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `puma` (RubyGems): affected `<5.6.7 || >=6.0.0, <6.3.1`; fixed in `5.6.7`, `6.3.1`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 7.3 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L`, from CNA (GitHub_M)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0085, the 58th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 15:16 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 15:16 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-68xg-gqqm-vgj8)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-68xg-gqqm-vgj8](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-68xg-gqqm-vgj8)
- [OSV: GHSA-68xg-gqqm-vgj8](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-68xg-gqqm-vgj8)
- <https://github.com/puma/puma/security/advisories/GHSA-68xg-gqqm-vgj8>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40175>
- <https://github.com/puma/puma/commit/690155e7d644b80eeef0a6094f9826ee41f1080a>
- <https://github.com/puma/puma/commit/7405a219801dcebc0ad6e0aa108d4319ca23f662>
- <https://github.com/puma/puma/commit/ed0f2f94b56982c687452504b95d5f1fbbe3eed1>
- <https://github.com/puma/puma>
- <https://github.com/puma/puma/releases/tag/v5.6.7>
- <https://github.com/puma/puma/releases/tag/v6.3.1>
- <https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puma/CVE-2023-40175.yml>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-68xg-gqqm-vgj8>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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