🛡️ CVE-2024-35296 — traffic-server

🟠 CVSS 8.2 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-20 NVD
8.2
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Invalid Accept-Encoding header can cause Apache Traffic Server to fail cache lookup and force forwarding requests.

This issue affects Apache Traffic Server: from 8.0.0 through 8.1.10, from 9.0.0 through 9.2.4.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 8.1.11 or 9.2.5, which fixes the issue.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-35296 is classified as CWE-20: Improper Input Validation. The application accepts input without checking that it has the expected form, so malformed values reach code that assumes they are well formed.

Affected software

CVE-2024-35296 is recorded against 1 package.

  • traffic-server (from 9.0.0 up to 9.2.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 26 July 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

lists.apache.org
lists.apache.org
lists.debian.org

CVE-2024-35296 on other distributions

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.2
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
CWE CWE-20
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-07-26
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
traffic-server 9.0.0 9.2.5

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