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CVE-2023-50269

SQUID-2023:10 Denial of Service in HTTP Request parsing

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.6
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an Uncontrolled Recursion bug in versions 2.6 through 2.7.STABLE9, versions 3.1 through 5.9, and versions 6.0.1 through 6.5, Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against HTTP Request parsing. This problem allows a remote client to perform Denial of Service attack by sending a large X-Forwarded-For header when the follow_x_forwarded_for feature is configured. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.6. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the stable releases can be found in Squid's patch archives.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated
  4. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • squid-cache squid

    From 2.6 · through 2.7.STABLE9; From 3.1 · through 5.9; From 6.0.1 · fixed in 6.6

References 7

GitHub · squid-cache/squid

squid-cache.org

lists.fedoraproject.org

lists.debian.org

security.netapp.com