Description
An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.13 and 5.x before 5.0.4. Due to incorrect data validation, HTTP Request Smuggling attacks may succeed against HTTP and HTTPS traffic. This leads to cache poisoning. This allows any client, including browser scripts, to bypass local security and poison the proxy cache and any downstream caches with content from an arbitrary source. When configured for relaxed header parsing (the default), Squid relays headers containing whitespace characters to upstream servers. When this occurs as a prefix to a Content-Length header, the frame length specified will be ignored by Squid (allowing for a conflicting length to be used from another Content-Length header) but relayed upstream.
References (13)
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0021
EPSS Percentile
43.4%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-444
Status
published
Products (11)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
20.04
debian/debian_linux
9.0
debian/debian_linux
10.0
fedoraproject/fedora
31
fedoraproject/fedora
32
fedoraproject/fedora
33
opensuse/leap
15.1
opensuse/leap
15.2
... and 1 more
Published
Sep 02, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026