Description
An issue was discovered in Squid 3.x and 4.x through 4.8. It allows attackers to smuggle HTTP requests through frontend software to a Squid instance that splits the HTTP Request pipeline differently. The resulting Response messages corrupt caches (between a client and Squid) with attacker-controlled content at arbitrary URLs. Effects are isolated to software between the attacker client and Squid. There are no effects on Squid itself, nor on any upstream servers. The issue is related to a request header containing whitespace between a header name and a colon.
References (11)
Scores
CVSS v3
5.3
EPSS
0.0995
EPSS Percentile
93.1%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-444
Status
published
Products (8)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
19.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
19.10
debian/debian_linux
8.0
fedoraproject/fedora
30
fedoraproject/fedora
31
squid-cache/squid
3.0 - 3.5.28
Published
Nov 26, 2019
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026