CVE-2021-36740

Summary

CVECVE-2021-36740
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-07-14 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:36:00 UTC
DescriptionVarnish 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-444

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish Cache All All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish Cache 6.0.8 r1 All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish Cache 6.0.8 r2 All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish Cache All All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish Cache All All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish Cache All All All All
Application Varnish-cache Varnish Cache All All All All
Application Varnish-software Varnish Cache All All All All
Application Varnish-software Varnish Cache All All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache All All All All
Application Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Take content length into account on H/2 request bodies · varnishcache/varnish-cache@9be2219 · GitHub MISC github.com
Varnish HTTP/2 Request Smuggling - Varnish Software Documentation MISC docs.varnish-software.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: varnish-6.5.2-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: varnish-6.4.0-5.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Take content length into account on H/2 request bodies · varnishcache/varnish-cache@82b0a62 · GitHub MISC github.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5088-1 varnish DEBIAN www.debian.org
VSV00007 Varnish HTTP/2 Request Smuggling Attack — Varnish HTTP Cache MISC varnish-cache.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: varnish-6.4.0-5.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: varnish-6.5.2-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159325 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for varnish:6 (ELSA-2021-2988)
  • 179098 Debian Security Update for varnish (DSA 5088-1)
  • 184862 Debian Security Update for varnish (CVE-2021-36740)
  • 198827 Ubuntu Security Notification for Varnish Cache Vulnerabilities (USN-5474-1)
  • 239527 Red Hat Update for rh-varnish6-varnish (RHSA-2021:2993)
  • 239530 Red Hat Update for varnish:6 (RHSA-2021:2988)
  • 281742 Fedora Security Update for varnish (FEDORA-2021-36e10d3f9f)
  • 281743 Fedora Security Update for varnish (FEDORA-2021-cf7585f0ca)
  • 376932 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for varnish:6 (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0053)
  • 500719 Alpine Linux Security Update for varnish
  • 501788 Alpine Linux Security Update for varnish
  • 504493 Alpine Linux Security Update for varnish
  • 940269 AlmaLinux Security Update for varnish:6 (ALSA-2021:2988)
  • 960780 Rocky Linux Security Update for varnish:6 (RLSA-2021:2988)
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