Martin van Kervel Smedshammer discovered that varnish, a state of the art, high-performance web accelerator, is prone to a HTTP/2 request forgery vulnerability. . - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-5334-1
An HTTP Request Forgery issue was discovered in Varnish Cache 5.x and 6.x before 6.0.11, 7.x before 7.1.2, and 7.2.x before 7.2.1. An attacker may introduce characters through HTTP/2 pseudo-headers that are invalid in the context of an HTTP/1 request line, causing the Varnish server to produce invalid HTTP/1 requests to the backend. This could, in turn, be used to . MGASA-2022-0434 - Updated varnish packages fix security vulnerability Publication date: 18 Nov 2022 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0434.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 8 CVE: CVE-2022-45060 An HTTP Request Forgery issue was discovered in Varnish Cache 5.x and 6.x before 6.0.11, 7.x before 7.1.2, and 7.2.x before 7.2.1. An attacker may introduce characters through HTTP/2 pseudo-headers that are invalid in the context of an HTTP/1 request line, causing the Varnish server to produce invalid HTTP/1 requests to the backend. This could, in turn, be used to exploit vulnerabilities in a server behind the Varnish server. (CVE-2022-45060) References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31121 - - https://docs.varnish-software.com/security/VSV00011/ - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-45060 SRPMS: - 8/core/varnish-6.5.1-1.3.mga8 . Nginx configurations revised for Fedora 36 to address a potential denial of service vulnerability, improving system resilience on 25 Dec 2022.. HTTP Request Forgery, Varnish Cache, Mageia Security Update, Exploit Risk, Server Vulnerability. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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