CVE-2014-7141
The pinger in Squid 3.x before 3.4.8 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted type in an (1) ICMP or (2) ICMP6 packet.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 76.1%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
The pinger in Squid 3.x before 3.4.8 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted type in an (1) ICMP or (2) ICMP6 packet.
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.4 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 76.06% probability · 100th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-19
- Affected
- squid-cache/squid
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 76.1% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00040.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/539
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/612
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/626
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60242
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2422-1Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69688
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2014_4.txtVendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891268
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00040.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/539
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/612
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/626
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60242
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2422-1Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69688
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2014_4.txtVendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891268
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.