CVE-2021-36740

varnish: Varnish Cache is a high-performance HTTP accelerator

CVE-2021-36740 is fixed in 5 products on 1 platform, first by RHSA-2021:2988, released August 2, 2021. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
8.1
Important
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0160
75th percentile

Varnish Cache is a high-performance HTTP accelerator. It stores web pages in memory so web servers don't have to create the same web page over and over again, giving the website a significant speed up. Security Fix(es): * varnish: HTTP/2 request smuggling attack via a large Content-Length header for a POST request (CVE-2021-36740) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
libvarnishapi2 · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 6.2.1-2ubuntu0.1 libvarnishapi2 6.2.1-2ubuntu0.1 Jan 25, 2022
varnish · Debian 11.6 (bullseye) 6.5.1-1+deb11u2 DSA-5088-1 Mar 3, 2022
varnish · RHEL 8 0:6.0.6-2.module+el8.4.0+11921+1a6539fc.1 RHSA-2021:2988 Aug 2, 2021
varnish · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 6.2.1-2ubuntu0.1 varnish 6.2.1-2ubuntu0.1 Jan 25, 2022
varnish · ol 8 0:6.0.6-2.module+el8.4.0+20258+f99218b2.1 ELSA-2021-2988 Aug 3, 2021
varnish-devel · RHEL 8 0:6.0.6-2.module+el8.4.0+11921+1a6539fc.1 RHSA-2021:2988 Aug 2, 2021
varnish-devel · ol 8 0:6.0.6-2.module+el8.4.0+20258+f99218b2.1 ELSA-2021-2988 Aug 3, 2021
varnish-docs · RHEL 8 0:6.0.6-2.module+el8.4.0+11921+1a6539fc.1 RHSA-2021:2988 Aug 2, 2021
varnish-docs · ol 8 0:6.0.6-2.module+el8.4.0+20258+f99218b2.1 ELSA-2021-2988 Aug 3, 2021
varnish-modules · RHEL 8 0:0.15.0-5.module+el8.3.0+6843+b3b42fcc RHSA-2021:2988 Aug 2, 2021
varnish-modules · ol 8 0:0.15.0-5.module+el8.3.0+7653+45014445 ELSA-2021-2988 Aug 3, 2021

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