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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-8517

This leads to the Squid process also terminating and a denial of service for all clients using the proxy.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 6.85%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (6.85%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.10. Due to incorrect input validation, the NTLM authentication credentials parser in ext_lm_group_acl may write to memory outside the credentials buffer. On systems with memory access protections, this can result in the helper process being terminated unexpectedly. This leads to the Squid process also terminating and a denial of service for all clients using the proxy.

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
6.85% probability · 94th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-20, CWE-787
Affected
squid-cache/squid · opensuse/leap · canonical/ubuntu linux
Source
cve@mitre.org

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