In Varnish Cache 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, and 7.1.0, it is possible to cause the Varnish Server to assert and automatically restart through forged HTTP/1 backend responses. An attack uses a crafted reason phrase of the backend response status line. This is fixed in 7.0.3 and 7.1.1.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - In Varnish Cache 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, and 7.1.0, it is possible to cause the Varnish Server to assert and
    automatically restart through forged HTTP/1 backend responses. An attack uses a crafted reason phrase of
    the backend response status line. This is fixed in 7.0.3 and 7.1.1. (CVE-2022-38150)

The remote Fedora 35 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-99c5ddb2ae advisory.

    This is a security update adding fixes for the following issues

    * VSV00009 aka CVE-2022-38150: Denial of service
    * VSV00010 aka CVE-2022-45059: Request smuggling
    * VSV00011 aka CVE-2022-45060: Request forgery

    For details, see https://varnish-cache.org/security

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2022:10104-1 advisory.

  - In Varnish Cache 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, and 7.1.0, it is possible to cause the Varnish Server to assert and     automatically restart through forged HTTP/1 backend responses. An attack uses a crafted reason phrase of     the backend response status line. This is fixed in 7.0.3 and 7.1.1. (CVE-2022-38150)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
424594	Alpine: multiple varnish packages: security update to 7.0.3-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
424594	Alpine: multiple varnish packages: security update to 7.0.3-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
408355	Alpine: varnish: security update to 7.1.1-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
408355	Alpine: varnish: security update to 7.1.1-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
407462	Alpine: varnish: security update to 7.0.3-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
407462	Alpine: varnish: security update to 7.0.3-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
169058	Fedora 35 : varnish (2022-99c5ddb2ae)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
164475	openSUSE 15 Security Update : varnish (openSUSE-SU-2022:10104-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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