High severity · published Apr 25, 2016
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 HTTP response splitting attacks via a…
7.5
CVSS
3.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.5% · higher than 89% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
7.0 · source: NVD
VC
Varnish Cache · Varnish Cache Project
3.0.0; 3.0.0; 3.0.1; 3.0.2; 3.0.3; 3.0.4; +2 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8852
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8852
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00064.html
www.debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3553
www.openwall.com
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/16/1
www.openwall.com
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/18/7
github.com
https://github.com/varnish/Varnish-Cache/commit/29870c8fe95e4e8a672f6f28c5fbe692bea09e9c
github.com
https://github.com/varnish/Varnish-Cache/commit/85e8468bec9416bd7e16b0d80cb820ecd2b330c3
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