CVE-2021-36740

NameCVE-2021-36740
DescriptionVarnish Cache, with HTTP/2 enabled, allows request smuggling and VCL authorization bypass via a large Content-Length header for a POST request. This affects Varnish Enterprise 6.0.x before 6.0.8r3, and Varnish Cache 5.x and 6.x before 6.5.2, 6.6.x before 6.6.1, and 6.0 LTS before 6.0.8.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-5088-1
Debian Bugs991040

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
varnish (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)4.0.2-1+deb8u1fixed
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch5.0.0-7+deb9u3vulnerable
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)6.1.1-1+deb10u4fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye6.5.1-1+deb11u3fixed
bookworm7.1.1-1.1fixed
sid, trixie7.6.0-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
varnishsourcejessie(not affected)
varnishsourcebuster6.1.1-1+deb10u3DSA-5088-1
varnishsourcebullseye6.5.1-1+deb11u2DSA-5088-1
varnishsource(unstable)6.5.2-1991040

Notes

[stretch] - varnish <ignored> (HTTP/2 support is marked experimental in 5.0 and enabling is not recommended, code is quite different)
https://varnish-cache.org/security/VSV00007.html
https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache/commit/9be22198e258d0e7a5c41f4291792214a29405cf (6.0.8)
https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache/commit/82b0a629f60136e76112c6f2c6372cce77b683be (6.5.2)
[jessie] - varnish <not-affected> (HTTP/2 support added in 5.0)

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