request-smuggling

request-smuggling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai. It costs 62 tokens per session (3,178 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of request-smuggling, MIT.

A security-testing guide for HTTP request smuggling, a flaw caused when a proxy and the main server disagree about where one HTTP request ends and the next begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test front-end and origin-server message parsing, request-boundary handling, and browser-based desynchronization.
Why use it?
It helps investigate unusual request handling across proxies, CDNs, load balancers, and servers, including HTTP/2 connections translated to HTTP/1.1.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to test front-end and origin-server message parsing, request-boundary handling, and browser-based desynchronization.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/securitytalent/bugskill-ai/request-smuggling
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai --skill request-smuggling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,178 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00062 $0.03178
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.01271
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00636
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00318

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6469b8e00d95, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

request-smuggling scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Sends data to an external URLmediumData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

fetch("https://target.example/vulnerable", { method: "POST",
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to request-smuggling — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

Awesome-Claude-Code-Agent-Skills/02-Web-Application-Security/request-smuggling/SKILL.md · 315 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 315 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: HTTP Request Smuggling — Expert Attack Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert HTTP desync techniques. Covers CL.TE, TE.CL, TE.TE obfuscation variants, HTTP/2 downgrade and pseudo-header confusion, client-side desync (browser fetch pipelines), and tool-assisted fuzzing. Assumes familiarity with raw HTTP/1.1 framing and reverse-proxy topologies. This is not “header injection” — it is message boundary disagreement between hops.

Routing note: load this skill when you suspect CDN/reverse-proxy and origin disagree on request-end boundaries, or when abnormal concatenation appears during H2-to-H1 downgrade.

  • ghost-bits-cast-attack when the HTTP client library is Apache HttpClient <= 4.5.9 (HTTPCLIENT-1974/1978) — injecting 瘍瘊 (U+760D U+760A, low bytes \r\n) into a header value causes the underlying char-to-byte writer to emit a literal CRLF, splitting the request at the origin without relying on CL/TE disagreement

1. QUICK START

CL.TE first probe (front-end trusts CL, back-end trusts chunked)

Assumption: front end prioritizes Content-Length, back end prioritizes Transfer-Encoding: chunked. Use a very short CL so the front end accepts a fake end, while the back end continues chunk parsing and leaves remaining bytes for the next request.

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: target.example
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 13
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

0

SMUGGLED
  • Front end reads only 13 bytes based on Content-Length: 13 (that is, 0\r\n\r\nSMUGGLED, 13 bytes total) and considers the request complete.
  • Back end parses as chunked: after the 0 end chunk, it treats SMUGGLED and onward as the start byte stream of the next request.

TE.CL first probe (front-end trusts chunked, back-end trusts CL)

Assumption: front end parses chunked and back end only reads Content-Length. Set CL equal to the number of bytes in the chunk-length line (commonly 4: two hex characters + \r\n), so the back end consumes only the length line and leaves the rest buffered for follow-up request splicing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 315 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 315 lines · 62 tokens per session scan B 6469b8e00d95

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request-smuggling is a skill published in the GitHub repository SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai (13 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 3,178 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (sends data to an external url). It is 100% identical to request-smuggling, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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