CVE-2015-8852

Summary

CVECVE-2015-8852
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2016-04-25 14:59:00 UTC
Updated2022-08-02 16:29:00 UTC
DescriptionVarnish 3.x before 3.0.7, when used in certain stacked installations, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via a header line terminated by a \r (carriage return) character in conjunction with multiple Content-Length headers in an HTTP request.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish 3.0.0 beta1 All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish 3.0.0 beta2 All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish 3.0.1 All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish 3.0.2 All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish 3.0.3 All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish 3.0.4 All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish 3.0.5 All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish 3.0.6 All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish 3.0.0 beta1 All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish 3.0.0 beta2 All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish 3.0.1 All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish 3.0.2 All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish 3.0.3 All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish 3.0.4 All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish 3.0.5 All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish 3.0.6 All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish Cache 3.0.0 beta1 All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish Cache 3.0.0 beta2 All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish Cache 3.0.1 All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish Cache 3.0.2 All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish Cache 3.0.3 All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish Cache 3.0.4 All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish Cache 3.0.5 All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish Cache 3.0.6 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 3.0.4 All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 3.0.5 All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache 3.0.6 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Re: CVE request: Varnish 3 before 3.0.7 was vulnerable to HTTP Smuggling issues: Double Content Length and bad EOL MLIST www.openwall.com
Varnish 3.0.7 released. MLIST www.varnish-cache.org Vendor Advisory
oss-security - CVE request: Varnish 3 before 3.0.7 was vulnerable to HTTP Smuggling issues: Double Content Length and bad EOL MLIST www.openwall.com
Do not consider a CR by itself as a valid line terminator · varnish/Varnish-Cache@85e8468 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3553-1 varnish DEBIAN www.debian.org
openSUSE-SU-2016:1316-1: moderate: Security update for varnish SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Varnish: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201607-10) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Check for duplicate Content-Length headers in requests · varnish/Varnish-Cache@29870c8 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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