CVE-2013-4484

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-4484
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-11-01 02:55:04 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionVarnish before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (child-process crash and temporary caching outage) via a GET request with trailing whitespace characters and no URI.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Varnish-cache Varnish 2.0.0 All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 2.0.1 All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 2.0.2 All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 2.0.3 All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 2.0.4 All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 2.0.5 All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 2.0.6 All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 2.1.0 All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 2.1.1 All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 2.1.2 All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 2.1.3 All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 2.1.4 All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 2.1.5 All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 3.0.0 All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 3.0.0 beta1 All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 3.0.0 beta2 All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 3.0.1 All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 3.0.2 All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 3.0.3 All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Advisory SA55452 - Varnish GET Requests Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
openSUSE-SU-2013:1683-1: moderate: update for varnish af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
openSUSE-SU-2013:1679-1: moderate: update for varnish af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
oss-security - Re: CVE number needed for Varnish DoS, also heads-up af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Debian -- Page not found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Security Advisory SA55746 - Debian update for varnish - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-10/0158.html af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 archives.neohapsis.com
#1367 (Varnish crashes if GET consists from whitespaces only) – Varnish af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.varnish-cache.org Exploit, Patch
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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