# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-50052"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-03T03:56:01.974Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-01T19:33:49.932Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-50052"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-50052.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-50052"
title: null
summary: "In Vinyl Cache before 9.0.1 and Varnish Cache before 9.0.3, a deficiency in HTTP/2 request parsing can be exploited to launch a backend request desync\nattack (request smuggling), which in turn can be used for cache poisoning,\nauthentication bypass, or possibly even information disclosure and manipulation. The attack vector only exists if HTTP/2 support is enabled by setting the\nfeature parameter to contain +http2. HTTP/2 support is disabled by\ndefault."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9.0.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"9.0.1","status":"unaffected"}],"vendor":"The Vinyl Cache Project","product":"Vinyl Cache","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.6.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"8.0.1"},{"version":"8.0.2","status":"unaffected"},{"version":"6.0.14","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.17"},{"version":"6.0.18","status":"unaffected"}],"vendor":"The Vinyl Cache Project","product":"Varnish Cache (pre split)","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"9.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"9.0.2"},{"version":"9.0.3","status":"unaffected"}],"vendor":"Varnish Software","product":"Varnish Cache by Varnish Software","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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