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CVE-2015-8852
Varnish 3.x before 3.0.7, when used in certain stacked installations, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct…
High7.5EPSS 3.5%
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.5% · top 11% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
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References (8)
- DSA-3553 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [varnish-announce] 20150323 Varnish 3.0.7 released. (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160418 Re: CVE request: Varnish 3 before 3.0.7 was vulnerable to HTTP Smuggling issues: Double Content Length and bad EOL (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- GLSA-201607-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://github.com/varnish/Varnish-Cache/commit/29870c8fe95e4e8a672f6f28c5fbe692bea09e9c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/varnish/Varnish-Cache/commit/85e8468bec9416bd7e16b0d80cb820ecd2b330c3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160416 CVE request: Varnish 3 before 3.0.7 was vulnerable to HTTP Smuggling issues: Double Content Length and bad EOL (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1316 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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