CVE-2026-40394 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-40394

Vendor Varnish-Software
Product Varnish Cache
Weakness CWE-670
Published April 12, 2026
Last update April 13, 2026

CVSS base score

4.0/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Varnish Cache 9 before 9.0.1 and Varnish Enterprise before 6.0.16r11 allows a "workspace overflow" denial of service (daemon panic) for certain amounts of prefetched data. The setup of an HTTP/2 session starts with a speculative HTTP/1 transport, and upon upgrading to h2 the HTTP/1 request is repurposed as stream zero. During the upgrade, a buffer allocation is made to reserve space to send frames to the client. This allocation would split the original workspace, and depending on the amount of prefetched data, the next fetch could perform a pipelining operation that would run out of workspace.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 12, 2026 CVE published
April 13, 2026 Record updated