# CVE-2020-14058: An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.12 and 5.x before 5.0.3.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-06-30 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.12 and 5.x before 5.0.3. Due to use of a potentially dangerous function, Squid and the default certificate validation helper are vulnerable to a Denial of Service when opening a TLS connection to an attacker-controlled server for HTTPS. This occurs because unrecognized error values are mapped to NULL, but later code expects that each error value is mapped to a valid error string.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v5/changesets/squid-5-c6d1a4f6a2cbebceebc8a3fcd8f539ceb7b7f723.patch
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-93f5fda134a2a010b84ffedbe833d670e63ba4be.patch
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2020_6.txt
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3RG5FGSTCAYVIJPJHIY3MRZ7NFT6HDO7/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210312-0001/

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