CVE-2013-4484

Exp

Varnish before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (child-process crash and temporary caching outage) via a GET request with trailing whitespace characters and no URI.

Published: 2013-11-01 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2013-4484 is rated High Exploit Risk (63.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.55%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2013-4484

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2013-4484

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-12-24 1.46% 1.55% +0.09%
2 2025-06-22 1.35% 1.46% +0.11%
3 2025-03-30 — 1.35% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2013-4484

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2013-4484

OS Trackers for CVE-2013-4484

vendor priority summary link
debian medium CVE-2013-4484 medium priority: Debian including 1 source packages (varnish), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4484
gentoo normal CVE-2013-4484: 1 GLSA(s) (201412-30), 1 atom(s) (www-servers/varnish); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2013-4484
ubuntu medium CVE-2013-4484 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (varnish), 13 status rows across 13 suites (lucid, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 7, ignored 5, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4484

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2013-4484

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
varnish-cache varnish 2.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:varnish-cache:varnish:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
varnish_cache_project varnish_cache <= 3.0.4 cpe:2.3:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
varnish_cache_project varnish_cache 2.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
varnish_cache_project varnish_cache 2.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
varnish_cache_project varnish_cache 2.0.3 cpe:2.3:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
varnish_cache_project varnish_cache 2.0.4 cpe:2.3:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
varnish_cache_project varnish_cache 2.0.5 cpe:2.3:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache:2.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
varnish_cache_project varnish_cache 2.0.6 cpe:2.3:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache:2.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
varnish_cache_project varnish_cache 2.1.0 cpe:2.3:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
varnish_cache_project varnish_cache 2.1.1 cpe:2.3:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
varnish_cache_project varnish_cache 2.1.2 cpe:2.3:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
varnish_cache_project varnish_cache 2.1.3 cpe:2.3:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache:2.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
varnish_cache_project varnish_cache 2.1.4 cpe:2.3:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache:2.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
varnish_cache_project varnish_cache 2.1.5 cpe:2.3:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache:2.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
varnish_cache_project varnish_cache 3.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache:3.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
varnish_cache_project varnish_cache 3.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache:3.0.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
varnish_cache_project varnish_cache 3.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache:3.0.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
varnish_cache_project varnish_cache 3.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
varnish_cache_project varnish_cache 3.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
varnish_cache_project varnish_cache 3.0.3 cpe:2.3:a:varnish_cache_project:varnish_cache:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2013-4484

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