HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting varnish package, versions <6.5.1-1+deb11u2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.67% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-VARNISH-1317119
  • published15 Jul 2021
  • disclosed14 Jul 2021

Introduced: 14 Jul 2021

CVE-2021-36740  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-444  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 varnish to version 6.5.1-1+deb11u2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream varnish package and not the varnish package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Varnish Cache, with HTTP/2 enabled, allows request smuggling and VCL authorization bypass via a large Content-Length header for a POST request. This affects Varnish Enterprise 6.0.x before 6.0.8r3, and Varnish Cache 5.x and 6.x before 6.5.2, 6.6.x before 6.6.1, and 6.0 LTS before 6.0.8.

CVSS Scores

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