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CVE-2013-4484

Varnish before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (child-process crash and temporary caching outage) via a GET request with trailing whitespace characters and no URI.

Severity
Medium 5.0
Published
1 Nov 2013
Last changed
16 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
1 Nov 2026
Exploit chance
3.2% in the next 30 daysHigher than 88% of CVEs. EPSS by FIRST, 12 Nov 2026
Weakness
Memory buffer errors (CWE-119)
Attack
Over the network · No login needed
Attacker can
Slow it down
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
Varnish CacheServers and applications · cpe:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache
  • Version 3.0.3
  • Version 3.0.2
  • Version 3.0.1
  • Version 3.0.0
All 19 release lines
  • Every version up to 3.0.4
  • Version 2.0.1
  • Version 2.0.2
  • Version 2.0.3
  • Version 2.0.4
  • Version 2.0.5
  • Version 2.0.6
  • Version 2.1.0
  • Version 2.1.1
  • Version 2.1.2
  • Version 2.1.3
  • Version 2.1.4
  • Version 2.1.5
  • Version 3.0.0-beta1
  • Version 3.0.0-beta2
  • Version 3.0.0
  • Version 3.0.1
  • Version 3.0.2
  • Version 3.0.3

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4484
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4484