PT-2013-1073 · Varnish · Varnish

Tollef Fog Heen · Published 2013-11-01 · Updated 2026-05-11 · CVE-2013-4484

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Varnish versions prior to 3.0.5

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, leading to a child-process crash and temporary caching outage. This can be achieved via a GET request with trailing whitespace characters and no URI.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.0.5, update to version 3.0.5 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the Varnish service to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

BDU:2015-02536

CVE-2013-4484

DSA-2814-1

MGASA-2014-0065

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10116-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10751-1

Affected Products

Varnish

References · 34

• 🔥 https://varnish-cache.org/trac/ticket/1367 · Exploit
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00029.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10116-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2026:10751-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0065 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4484 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4484 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4484 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-4484 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4484 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4484 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4484 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0065.html · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4484 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2814 · Vendor Advisory