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CVE-2017-12425

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-12425 is a Denial-of-Service vulnerability affecting Varnish HTTP Cache versions 4.0.1 through 4.0.4, 4.1.0 through 4.1.7, 5.0.0, and 5.1.0 through 5.1.2. An integer overflow in the varnishd source code allows an unauthenticated attacker to send crafted requests, triggering an assert and causing the worker process to crash and restart, effectively clearing the cache. This vulnerability has a CVSSv3 score of 7.5 (High), indicating a network-exploitable attack with low complexity and high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:varnish-cache:varnish:4.0.2:rc-1:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:varnish-cache:varnish:4.0.3:rc-1:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:varnish-cache:varnish:4.0.3:rc-2:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:varnish-cache:varnish:4.0.3:rc-2-proper:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:varnish-cache:varnish:4.0.3:rc-3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0242 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-varnish4-varnish

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-12425Moderate

varnish: Missing check for integer overflow when handling chunk sizes in HTTP requests

Aug 2, 2017

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.suse.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / varnishcache/varnish-cache/issues/2379
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-security-announce/2017/msg00186.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
varnish-cache.org / security/VSV00001.html
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3924