CVE-2014-7142
The pinger in Squid 3.x before 3.4.8 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted (1) ICMP or (2) ICMP6 packet size.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 24.9%, higher than 98% 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 (crash) via a crafted (1) ICMP or (2) ICMP6 packet size.
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.4 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 24.93% probability · 98th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- oracle/solaris · canonical/ubuntu linux · squid-cache/squid
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 24.9% since 4 November 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/q3/539Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/613Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/626Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60242Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2422-1Vendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70022
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2014_4.txtVendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891268Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- 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/q3/539Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/613Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/626Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60242Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2422-1Vendor Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70022
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2014_4.txtVendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891268Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.