CVE-2025-47905
varnish: request smuggling attacks
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · May 13, 2025
Updated · July 12, 2026
Description
A vulnerability was found in Varnish Cache. This vulnerability may allow request smuggling attacks, where a malicious actor can craft seemingly legitimate HTTP requests. This issue could result in an unspecified system caching incorrect content that can expose confidential information.
Statement
This vulnerability is rated as an IMPORTANT severity because this is a client-side desync vulnerability in Varnish handling a chunked transfer encoding, where it mishandles CRLF delimiters, allows attackers to smuggle additional HTTP/1 requests, this flaw allows attacker to unauthorized access of sensitive information and data alteration.
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
Currently, no mitigation is available for this vulnerability.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE-444 · Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')