CVE-2026-40394
Varnish Cache 9 before 9.0.1 and Varnish Enterprise before 6.0.16r11 allows a "workspace overflow...
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.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- Low
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
4.0
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.
- Record
CVE-2026-40394- CVSS 3.1
- 4.0 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L - Weakness
- CWE-670
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2026-21738
4.0
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.
- Record
EUVD-2026-21738- CVSS 3.1
- 4.0 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-26pg-g54q-jv62
4.0
Varnish Cache 9 before 9.0.1 and Varnish Enterprise before 6.0.16r11 allows a "workspace overflow...
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.
- Record
GHSA-26pg-g54q-jv62- CVSS 3.1
- 4.0 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L - Weakness
- CWE-670
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
4.0
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.
- Record
CVE-2026-40394- CVSS 3.1
- 4.0 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L - CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-670
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2026-40394
7.5
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.
- Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40394- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2026-40394
4.0
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.
- Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40394- CVSS 3.1
- 4.0 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L - CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
varnishUbuntu:14.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 3.0.4-1ubuntu13.0.4-1ubuntu23.0.5-1ubuntu23.0.5-23.0.5-2ubuntu0.1 |
None known |
varnishUbuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 4.0.3-14.1.0-14.1.0-24.1.1-14.1.1-1ubuntu0.24.1.1-1ubuntu0.2+esm1 |
None known |
varnishUbuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 5.0.0-7.15.2.1-15.2.1-1ubuntu0.15.2.1-1ubuntu0.1+esm1 |
None known |
varnishUbuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 6.1.1-16.2.1-26.2.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm16.2.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm26.2.1-2ubuntu0.16.2.1-2ubuntu0.26.2.1-2ubuntu0.2+esm1 |
None known |
varnishUbuntu:Pro:22.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 6.5.2-16.6.1-16.6.1-1ubuntu0.26.6.1-1ubuntu0.2+esm1 |
None known |
varnishUbuntu:24.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 7.1.1-1.1ubuntu1 |
None known |
varnishUbuntu:25.10 |
All versions, plus listed versions 7.7.0-17.7.0-27.7.0-37.7.3-1 |
None known |
varnishUbuntu:26.10 |
All versions, plus listed versions 7.7.3-1build1 |
None known |
varnishUbuntu:26.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 7.7.3-17.7.3-1build1 |
None known |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| affected | ||
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2026-40394 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.0) in Varnish-software Varnish Cache, published April 12, 2026. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.24%, the 14th percentile. No source names a fixed version.