CVE-2026-40395 PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre
Reserved: 12.04.2026 Published: 12.04.2026 Updated: 12.04.2026

Varnish Enterprise before 6.0.16r12 allows a "workspace overflow" denial of service (daemon panic) for shared VCL. The headerplus.write_req0() function from vmod_headerplus updates the underlying req0, which is normally the original read-only request from which req is derived (readable and writable from VCL). This is useful in the active VCL, after amending req, to prepare a refined req0 before switching to a different VCL with the return (vcl(<label>)) action. This is for example how the Varnish Controller operates shared VCL deployments. If the amended req contained too many header fields for req0, this would have resulted in a workspace overflow that would in turn trigger a panic and crash the Varnish Enterprise server. This could be used as a Denial of Service attack vector by malicious clients.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS Score: 4

Product Status

Vendor varnish-software
Product Varnish Enterprise
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 6.0.9r5 to 6.0.16r12 (excl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE