CVE-2013-4484
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
Varnish before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (child-process crash and temporary caching outage) via a GET request with trailing whitespace characters and no URI.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 3.0.5-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 3.0.5-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 3.0.5-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 3.0.5-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 3.0.5-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| varnish-cache | varnish | 2.0.0 | |
| varnish_cache_project | varnish_cache | {"endIncluding":"3.0.4"} | |
| varnish_cache_project | varnish_cache | 2.0.1 | |
| varnish_cache_project | varnish_cache | 2.0.2 | |
| varnish_cache_project | varnish_cache | 2.0.3 | |
| varnish_cache_project | varnish_cache | 2.0.4 | |
| varnish_cache_project | varnish_cache | 2.0.5 | |
| varnish_cache_project | varnish_cache | 2.0.6 | |
| varnish_cache_project | varnish_cache | 2.1.0 | |
| varnish_cache_project | varnish_cache | 2.1.1 | |
| varnish_cache_project | varnish_cache | 2.1.2 | |
| varnish_cache_project | varnish_cache | 2.1.3 | |
| varnish_cache_project | varnish_cache | 2.1.4 | |
| varnish_cache_project | varnish_cache | 2.1.5 | |
| varnish_cache_project | varnish_cache | 3.0.0 | |
| varnish_cache_project | varnish_cache | 3.0.1 | |
| varnish_cache_project | varnish_cache | 3.0.2 | |
| varnish_cache_project | varnish_cache | 3.0.3 | |
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2013-10/0158.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00029.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00033.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55452
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55746
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2814
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/30/5
- https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/ticket/1367
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4484
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.