HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting varnish-cache package, versions [,6.0.8)[6.6.0, 6.6.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VARNISHCACHE-2370250
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Jul 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Jul 2021

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

How to fix?

Upgrade varnish-cache to version 6.0.8, 6.6.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling. 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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