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CVE-2026-40394

Varnish Cache 9 before 9.0.1 and Varnish Enterprise before 6.0.16r11 allows a "workspace overflow...

4.0 Medium

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

0.24%Up 0.2 points since Apr 13, 2026
90%50%10%1%

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

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
varnish
Ubuntu: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
varnish
Ubuntu: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
varnish
Ubuntu: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
varnish
Ubuntu: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
varnish
Ubuntu: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
varnish
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
7.1.1-1.1ubuntu1
None known
varnish
Ubuntu:25.10
All versions, plus listed versions
7.7.0-17.7.0-27.7.0-37.7.3-1
None known
varnish
Ubuntu:26.10
All versions, plus listed versions
7.7.3-1build1
None known
varnish
Ubuntu:26.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
7.7.3-17.7.3-1build1
None known

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected
first indexedCVE 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.

References

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