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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2005-0446

Squid 2.5.STABLE8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain DNS responses regarding (1) Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) in fqdncache.c or (2) IP addresses in ipcache.c, which trigger an assertion failure.

MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 41.1%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 41.1%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

Squid 2.5.STABLE8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain DNS responses regarding (1) Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) in fqdncache.c or (2) IP addresses in ipcache.c, which trigger an assertion failure.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
41.11% probability · 99th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
squid/squid
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.