CVE-2026-50052
Published: 03 June 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-50052 is a low-severity HTTP Request/Response Smuggling (CWE-444) vulnerability in Vinyl Cache (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 2.3 (Low).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 26.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-34066
Vulnerability details
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 attack (request smuggling), which in turn can be used for cache poisoning, authentication bypass, or…
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possibly even information disclosure and manipulation. The attack vector only exists if HTTP/2 support is enabled by setting the feature parameter to contain +http2. HTTP/2 support is disabled by default.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
CVE directly describes an exploitable HTTP/2 parsing flaw in a public-facing cache server enabling request smuggling attacks.
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Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.