CVE-2026-40395CWE-770

Varnish Enterprise before 6.0.16r12 allows a "workspace overflow" denial of service (daemon panic) for shared VCL

Medium · published April 12, 2026

CVSS v3.1
4.0
EPSS
0%
Percentile
33.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Varnish Enterprise before 6.0.16r12 allows a "workspace overflow" denial of service (daemon panic) for shared VCL. The headerplus.write_req0() function from vmod_headerplus updates the underlying req0, which is normally the original read-only request from which req is derived (readable and writable from VCL). This is useful in the active VCL, after amending req, to prepare a refined req0 before switching to a different VCL with the return (vcl(<label>)) action. This is for example how the Varnish Controller operates shared VCL deployments. If the amended req contained too many header fields for req0, this would have resulted in a workspace overflow that would in turn trigger a panic and crash the Varnish Enterprise server. This could be used as a Denial of Service attack vector by malicious clients.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.0 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00405 · 33.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-04-12T19:21Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 APR 19:21Z
    Varnish Enterprise before 6.0.16r12 allows a "workspace overflow" denial of service (daemon panic) for shared VCL
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