MajorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-93748 (CVSS 8.7)
NVD · officialPublished Sep 18, 2026Risk 37/100EPSS 0.4%
http-cache-semantics through 4.2.0 fails to properly validate security-zeroed cache entries when processing client max-stale directives, allowing unauthenticated attackers to retrieve cached responses belonging to other users. Attackers can request the same URL with a large max-stale value to obtain another user's Set-Cookie session credentials from shared-cache entries that were deliberately zeroed for security reasons.
Technical details
CVSS
8.7
AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:None
Evidence and sources
This record is attributed to NVD. Exploitation status and remediation guidance are kept separate from the vulnerability's technical severity.
Open primary source