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Description

Varnish Cache 9 before 9.0.1 and Varnish Enterprise before 6.0.16r11 allows a "workspace overflow" denial of service (daemon panic) for certain amounts of prefetched data. The setup of an HTTP/2 session starts with a speculative HTTP/1 transport, and upon upgrading to h2 the HTTP/1 request is repurposed as stream zero. During the upgrade, a buffer allocation is made to reserve space to send frames to the client. This allocation would split the original workspace, and depending on the amount of prefetched data, the next fetch could perform a pipelining operation that would run out of workspace.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-12 | Published 2026-04-12 | Updated 2026-04-12 | Assigner mitre




MEDIUM: 4.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

Problem types

CWE-670 Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation

Product status

Default status
unaffected

9.0.0 (semver) before 9.0.1
affected

References

docs.varnish-software.com/security/VEV00002/

cve.org (CVE-2026-40394)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-40394)

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