CVE-2026-93894

Summary

In Vinyl Cache before 9.0,2, workspace buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the .upper() and .lower() string type methods of VCL. This can be used as a remote denial of service (DoS) vector to make the child process segfault or assert, and then restart. Effectively exploiting this vulnerability requires prior knowledge about the VCL in use and the ability to craft a request that contains a string that is long enough to fill the remaining workspace at the call site while staying under the different request size limits (http_req_size, http_req_hdr_len, etc.).

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Vinyl-CacheVinyl Cache0 < 9.0.2affected
Vinyl-CacheVinyl Cache0 < 90f5bacc14b2404e6cc349ba015f0f73b8515136affected
Varnish-SoftwareVarnish Cache9.0.0 < 9.0.4affected
Varnish-SoftwareVarnish Cache0 < c5078ae575201b05ae8674a90ddb19ffe7f4b439affected
Varnish-SoftwareVarnish Cache6.3.0 <= 8.0.2affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-787: CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Workarounds

replace the .upper() and .lower() VCL type method calls by their respective vmod_std counterparts: std.toupper() and std.tolower().

References