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CVE-2025-47905

varnish: request smuggling attacks

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

8.1

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 · 8.1
CVSS: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')