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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-12529

An attacker would not be able to retrieve the decoded data unless the Squid maintainer had configured the display of usernames on error pages.

MEDIUM 5.9EPSS 8.09%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (8.09%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

An issue was discovered in Squid 2.x through 2.7.STABLE9, 3.x through 3.5.28, and 4.x through 4.7. When Squid is configured to use Basic Authentication, the Proxy-Authorization header is parsed via uudecode. uudecode determines how many bytes will be decoded by iterating over the input and checking its table. The length is then used to start decoding the string. There are no checks to ensure that the length it calculates isn't greater than the input buffer. This leads to adjacent memory being decoded as well. An attacker would not be able to retrieve the decoded data unless the Squid maintainer had configured the display of usernames on error pages.

CVSS 3.1
5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
8.09% probability · 94th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-125
Affected
squid-cache/squid · debian/debian linux · fedoraproject/fedora · opensuse/leap · canonical/ubuntu linux
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

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