SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-24606

Squid before 4.13 and 5.x before 5.0.4 allows a trusted peer to perform Denial of Service by consuming all available CPU cycles during handling of a crafted Cache Digest response message.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 5.16%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (5.16%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Squid before 4.13 and 5.x before 5.0.4 allows a trusted peer to perform Denial of Service by consuming all available CPU cycles during handling of a crafted Cache Digest response message. This only occurs when cache_peer is used with the cache digests feature. The problem exists because peerDigestHandleReply() livelocking in peer_digest.cc mishandles EOF.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
5.16% probability · 92th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-667
Affected
squid-cache/squid · canonical/ubuntu linux · debian/debian linux · fedoraproject/fedora · opensuse/leap
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

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