CVE-2020-15810

MEDIUM

Squid < 4.13 and 5.x < 5.0.4 - HTTP Request Smuggling via Relaxed Header Parsing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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)

Core 13
Core References
Mitigation, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-3365-q9qx-f98m
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4751
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4477-1/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00012.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00017.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4551-1/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00005.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210219-0007/
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210226-0006/

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0254
EPSS Percentile 82.8%
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