CVE-2023-5824

HIGH

Squid < 6.4 - Improper Exception Handling

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

A flaw was found in Squid. The limits applied for validation of HTTP response headers are applied before caching. However, Squid may grow a cached HTTP response header beyond the configured maximum size, causing a stall or crash of the worker process when a large header is retrieved from the disk cache, resulting in a denial of service.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0188
EPSS Percentile 83.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-755
Status published
Products (5)
redhat/enterprise_linux 6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 9.0
squid-cache/squid < 6.4
Published Nov 03, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026