CVE-2017-12425

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-08-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

An issue was discovered in Varnish HTTP Cache 4.0.1 through 4.0.4, 4.1.0 through 4.1.7, 5.0.0, and 5.1.0 through 5.1.2. A wrong if statement in the varnishd source code means that particular invalid requests from the client can trigger an assert, related to an Integer Overflow. This causes the varnishd worker process to abort and restart, losing the cached contents in the process. An attacker can therefore crash the varnishd worker process on demand and effectively keep it from serving content - a Denial-of-Service attack. The specific source-code filename containing the incorrect statement varies across releases.

Affected products

Varnish-Cache Varnish: 4.0.2-rc-1, 4.0.3-rc-1, 4.0.3-rc-2, 4.0.3-rc-2-proper, 4.0.3-rc-3, 4.1.0
varnish-software Varnish Cache: 4.1.0-beta1, 4.1.0-technology_preview1, 4.1.1, 4.1.1-beta1, 4.1.1-beta2, 4.1.2 (+14)
Varnish Cache Project Varnish Cache: 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 5.0.0, 5.1.0 (+2)

References

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