CVE-2024-25617

5.3 · MEDIUM

Published Feb 14, 2024 squid-cache CWE-182 EPSS 88.86% (100th pctl) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Overview

CVE-2024-25617 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting squid-cache squid. It was published on February 14, 2024 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.3 (MEDIUM).

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.3, rated MEDIUM. It can be exploited remotely over the network. No authentication or special privileges are required for exploitation.

Technical Description

Squid is an open source caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a Collapse of Data into Unsafe Value bug ,Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against HTTP header parsing. This problem allows a remote client or a remote server to perform Denial of Service when sending oversized headers in HTTP messages. In versions of Squid prior to 6.5 this can be achieved if the request_header_max_size or reply_header_max_size settings are unchanged from the default. In Squid version 6.5 and later, the default setting of these parameters is safe. Squid will emit a critical warning in cache.log if the administrator is setting these parameters to unsafe values. Squid will not at this time prevent these settings from being changed to unsafe values. Users are advised to upgrade to version 6.5. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. This issue is also tracked as SQUID-2024:2

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from squid-cache. Update squid to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Status
squid-cache	squid	>= 3.0, < 6.5	Affected

References

GitHub github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/72a3bbd5e431597c3fdb56d752bc56b010ba3817 GitHub github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-h5x6-w8mv-xfpr Ref security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240322-0006/ GitHub github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/72a3bbd5e431597c3fdb56d752bc56b010ba3817 GitHub github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-h5x6-w8mv-xfpr Ref security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240322-0006/

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2024-25617?

CVE-2024-25617 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting squid-cache squid. It was published on February 14, 2024 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.3 (MEDIUM).

How severe is CVE-2024-25617?

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.3, rated MEDIUM. It can be exploited remotely over the network. No authentication or special privileges are required for exploitation.

How do I fix or remediate CVE-2024-25617?

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