Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere Affecting trafficserver package, versions <7.1.4+ds-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
7.17% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-TRAFFICSERVER-18001109
  • published17 Jul 2026
  • disclosed29 Aug 2018

Introduced: 29 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-8040  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-668  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Echo:latest trafficserver to version 7.1.4+ds-1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

Pages that are rendered using the ESI plugin can have access to the cookie header when the plugin is configured not to allow access. This affects Apache Traffic Server (ATS) versions 6.0.0 to 6.2.2 and 7.0.0 to 7.1.3. To resolve this issue users running 6.x should upgrade to 6.2.3 or later versions and 7.x users should upgrade to 7.1.4 or later versions.