CVE-2024-25111
HIGHSquid 3.5.27-6.7 - Denial of Service via HTTP Chunked Decoder Uncontrolled Recursion
Title source: llmDescription
Squid is a web proxy cache. Starting in version 3.5.27 and prior to version 6.8, Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against HTTP Chunked decoder due to an uncontrolled recursion bug. This problem allows a remote attacker to cause Denial of Service when sending a crafted, chunked, encoded HTTP Message. This bug is fixed in Squid version 6.8. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the stable releases can be found in Squid's patch archives. There is no workaround for this issue.
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7R4KPSO3MQT3KAOZV7LC2GG3CYMCGK7H/
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XWQHRDRHDM5PQTU6BHH4C5KGL37X6TVI/
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240605-0001/
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-72c2-c3wm-8qxc
Mailing List, Patch x_refsource_misc
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v6/SQUID-2024_1.patch
Scores
CVSS v3
8.6
EPSS
0.6525
EPSS Percentile
99.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-674
Status
published
Products (4)
fedoraproject/fedora
38
fedoraproject/fedora
39
netapp/bluexp
squid-cache/squid
3.5.27 - 6.8
Published
Mar 06, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026