{"id":"CVE-2016-2572","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2016-2572","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:56:43.867Z","title":"http.cc in Squid 4.x before 4.0.7 relies on the HTTP status code after a response-parsing failure, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed response.","description":"http.cc in Squid 4.x before 4.0.7 relies on the HTTP status code after a response-parsing failure, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed response.","published":"2016-02-27T05:59:07.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:44:20.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["squid-cache/squid"],"epss":{"score":0.10154,"percentile":0.95622,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-09-21","score":0.15101,"percentile":0.96636},{"date":"2026-09-22","score":0.10154,"percentile":0.95441}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.2%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00040.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00069.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2600.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/26/2","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035101","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2016_2.txt","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-14548.patch","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-01","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00040.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00069.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2600.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/26/2","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035101","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2016_2.txt","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-14548.patch","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-01","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2572","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}