CVE-2015-8852

high
Published 2016-04-25 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Varnish 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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

debian Debian Mixed 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.0.0-1
sid Fixed 4.0.0-1
forky Fixed 4.0.0-1
bullseye Fixed 4.0.0-1
bookworm Fixed 4.0.0-1
7.0 Affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
varnish_cache_projectvarnish_cache3.0.0
varnish_cache_projectvarnish_cache3.0.1
varnish_cache_projectvarnish_cache3.0.2
varnish_cache_projectvarnish_cache3.0.3
varnish_cache_projectvarnish_cache3.0.4
varnish_cache_projectvarnish_cache3.0.5
varnish_cache_projectvarnish_cache3.0.6

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.