web-vuln-http-smuggling

web-vuln-http-smuggling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from woohyun212/security-skill. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,735 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A test for HTTP request smuggling, where a front-end proxy and back-end server disagree about where one request ends and the next begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it on systems behind CDNs, reverse proxies, or load balancers to test different HTTP parsing combinations and HTTP/2 downgrades.
Why use it?
That disagreement can let requests bypass controls, interfere with other users' requests, or affect caches and authentication.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it on systems behind CDNs, reverse proxies, or load balancers to test different HTTP parsing combinations and HTTP/2 downgrades.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/woohyun212/security-skill/web-vuln-http-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 woohyun212/security-skill --skill web-vuln-http-smuggling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/woohyun212/security-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,735 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00040 $0.02735
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01367
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00547
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00274

Measured 10d ago against content hash ca3b5e1dc92a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

web-vuln-http-smuggling scanned grade A 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 10d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- `curl` compiled with HTTP/1.1 support (standard on Linux/macOS)
web-vuln-http-smuggling/SKILL.md · 251 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 251 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What this skill does

Detects HTTP request smuggling vulnerabilities by exploiting disagreements between front-end (reverse proxy/CDN) and back-end (application server) parsers over how to determine request boundaries. Tests CL.TE (Content-Length front, Transfer-Encoding back), TE.CL (Transfer-Encoding front, Content-Length back), TE.TE (both use Transfer-Encoding but with obfuscation), and H2.CL (HTTP/2 downgrade to HTTP/1.1) variants using timing-based probes and differential response analysis.

When to use

  • When the target sits behind a reverse proxy, CDN, or load balancer (Nginx, HAProxy, AWS ALB, Cloudflare, Fastly)
  • When testing for WAF bypass, request hijacking, cache poisoning, or credential theft
  • During high-value bug bounty targets with multi-tier HTTP infrastructure
  • When initial recon reveals Via, X-Forwarded-For, or X-Cache response headers indicating a proxy layer

Prerequisites

  • curl compiled with HTTP/1.1 support (standard on Linux/macOS)
  • netcat (nc) for raw TCP requests
  • Burp Suite with HTTP Request Smuggler extension (optional, for automated scanning)
  • A test account on the target for differential response verification

Inputs

Variable Description Example
TARGET_HOST Target hostname example.com
TARGET_PORT Target port 443
TARGET_PATH Path to test (preferably a POST-accepting endpoint) /api/search
AUTH_HEADER Authentication header if required Authorization: Bearer eyJ...

Workflow

Step 1: Identify front-end/back-end architecture

TARGET_HOST="example.com"
TARGET_PORT=443
TARGET_PATH="/api/search"

echo "=== Step 1: Architecture fingerprinting ==="

curl -s -I "https://$TARGET_HOST$TARGET_PATH" | grep -iE "via|x-cache|x-served-by|server|x-forwarded|cdn|cf-ray|x-amz"

echo ""
echo "Indicators of proxy presence:"
echo "  See REFERENCE.md for proxy fingerprinting header-to-vendor mappings"

Reference: See REFERENCE.md for proxy fingerprinting indicators (header-to-vendor mappings).

Read the full file on GitHub · 251 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. 10d ago First seen · 251 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A ca3b5e1dc92a

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web-vuln-http-smuggling is a skill published in the GitHub repository woohyun212/security-skill (21 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,735 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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