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www/varnish7 -- Request Smuggling Attack

Affected packages
varnish7 < 7.7.1

Details

VuXML ID 89c668d5-2f80-11f0-9632-641c67a117d8
Discovery 2025-05-12
Entry 2025-05-12

The Varnish Development Team reports:

A client-side desync vulnerability can be triggered in Varnish Cache and Varnish Enterprise. This vulnerability can be triggered under specific circumstances involving malformed HTTP/1 requests.

An attacker can abuse a flaw in Varnish's handling of chunked transfer encoding which allows certain malformed HTTP/1 requests to exploit improper framing of the message body to smuggle additional requests. Specifically, Varnish incorrectly permits CRLF to be skipped to delimit chunk boundaries.

References

URL https://varnish-cache.org/security/VSV00016.html