Squid vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks due to security bugs
CVE-2024-45802

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Squid-cache

Status
Squid
Vendor
CVE Published:
28 October 2024

What is CVE-2024-45802?

The Squid Proxy is an open-source caching solution that facilitates web traffic management for various protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. A vulnerability exists that arises from improper input validation and issues related to resource management. Specifically, the vulnerability permits a trusted server to exploit these weaknesses, thereby potentially launching Denial of Service attacks against all clients utilizing the Squid Proxy. This can disrupt services and degrade the overall performance of the proxy server, affecting the reliability of web traffic management. The issue has been rectified in the default build configuration of Squid version 6.10.

Affected Version(s)

squid >= 3.0, < 6.10

References

https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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