CVE-2022-38150

Publication date 11 August 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

In Varnish Cache 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, and 7.1.0, it is possible to cause the Varnish Server to assert and automatically restart through forged HTTP/1 backend responses. An attack uses a crafted reason phrase of the backend response status line. This is fixed in 7.0.3 and 7.1.1.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
varnish	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

only affects 7.0 and higher

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
varnish	Upstream: c5fd097 Upstream: 19544fd

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H