Information disclosure in Varnish Cache - CVE-2019-20637

 

Information disclosure in Varnish Cache - CVE-2019-20637

Published: April 9, 2020 / Updated: July 17, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU30309
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-20637
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

An issue was discovered in Varnish Cache before 6.0.5 LTS, 6.1.x and 6.2.x before 6.2.2, and 6.3.x before 6.3.1. It does not clear a pointer between the handling of one client request and the next request within the same connection. This sometimes causes information to be disclosed from the connection workspace, such as data structures associated with previous requests within this connection or VCL-related temporary headers.


Affected software

Varnish Cache
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
Ubuntu
varnish (Ubuntu package)
libvarnishapi1 (Ubuntu package)
libvarnishapi2 (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2019-20637

Install update from vendor's website.

Varnish Cache - update to 6.0.5
varnish (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 5.2.1-1ubuntu0.1, 6.2.1-2ubuntu0.1, 6.5.2-1ubuntu0.2, 6.6.1-1ubuntu0.2
libvarnishapi1 (Ubuntu package) - update to 5.2.1-1ubuntu0.1
libvarnishapi2 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 6.2.1-2ubuntu0.1, 6.5.2-1ubuntu0.2, 6.6.1-1ubuntu0.2

External References

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