VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2023-49286
Due to an Incorrect Check of Function Return Value bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against its Helper process management.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 10.4%
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.4%, higher than 95% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to an Incorrect Check of Function Return Value bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against its Helper process management. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
- 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
- 10.35% probability · 95th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-253, CWE-617, CWE-754
- Affected
- squid-cache/squid
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v6/SQUID-2023_8.patchBroken Link
- https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/6014c6648a2a54a4ecb7f952ea1163e0798f9264Patch
- https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-xggx-9329-3c27Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00003.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5QASTMCUSUEW3UOMKHZJB3FTONWSRXS/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MEV66D3PAAY6K7TWDT3WZBLCPLASFJDC/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240119-0004/
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v6/SQUID-2023_8.patchBroken Link
- https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/6014c6648a2a54a4ecb7f952ea1163e0798f9264Patch
- https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-xggx-9329-3c27Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00003.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5QASTMCUSUEW3UOMKHZJB3FTONWSRXS/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MEV66D3PAAY6K7TWDT3WZBLCPLASFJDC/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240119-0004/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.