CVE-2026-40396

Varnish Cache 9 before 9.0.1 allows a "workspace overflow" denial of service (daemon panic) after timeout_linger. A malicious client could send an HTTP/1 request, wait long enough until the session releases its worker thread (timeout_linger) and resume traffic before the session is closed (timeout_idle) sending more than one request at once to trigger a pipelining operation between requests. This vulnerability affecting Varnish Cache 9.0.0 emerged from a port of the Varnish Enterprise non-blocking architecture for HTTP/2. New code was needed to adapt to a more recent workspace API that formalizes the pipelining operation. In addition to the workspace change on the Varnish Cache side, other differences created merge conflicts, like partial support for trailers in Varnish Enterprise. The conflict resolution missed one code path configuring pipelining to perform a complete workspace rollback, losing the guarantee that prefetched data would fit inside workspace_client during the transition from one request to the next. This can result in a workspace overflow, triggering a panic and crashing the Varnish server.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:vinyl-cache:vinyl_cache:9.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

17 Apr 2026, 14:38

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CPE cpe:2.3:a:vinyl-cache:vinyl_cache:9.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
First Time Vinyl-cache vinyl Cache
Vinyl-cache
References () https://github.com/varnish/varnish/issues/15 - () https://github.com/varnish/varnish/issues/15 - Issue Tracking
References () https://github.com/varnish/varnish/releases/tag/varnish-9.0.1 - () https://github.com/varnish/varnish/releases/tag/varnish-9.0.1 - Product

12 Apr 2026, 20:16

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-04-12 20:16

Updated : 2026-04-17 14:38


NVD link : CVE-2026-40396

Mitre link : CVE-2026-40396

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-40396


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Products Affected

vinyl-cache

  • vinyl_cache
CWE
CWE-670

Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation