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Unscored USN-5474-1 4 CVEs

varnish vulnerabilities

Published Jun 8, 2022 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Summary

It was dicovered that Varnish Cache did not clear a pointer between the
handling of one client request and the next request within the same connection.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive
information. (CVE-2019-20637)

It was discovered that Varnish Cache could have an assertion failure when a
TLS termination proxy uses PROXY version 2. A remote attacker could possibly
use this issue to restart the daemon and cause a performance loss.
(CVE-2020-11653)

It was discovered that Varnish Cache allowed request smuggling and VCL
authorization bypass via a large Content-Length header for a POST
request. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive
information. (CVE-2021-36740)

It was discovered that Varnish Cache allowed request smuggling for HTTP/1
connections. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain
sensitive information. (CVE-2022-23959)

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS varnish 5.2.1-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS varnish 6.2.1-2ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS varnish 6.6.1-1ubuntu0.2

Vulnerabilities 4

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-20637
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-11653
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-36740
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-23959