CVE-2020-15049
CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.9 · CWE-444
9.9CVSS CRITICAL
Summary
An issue was discovered in http/ContentLengthInterpreter.cc in Squid before 4.12 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A Request Smuggling and Poisoning attack can succeed against the HTTP cache. The client sends an HTTP request with a Content-Length header containing "+\ "-" or an uncommon shell whitespace character prefix to the length field-value.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)6%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-ea12a34d338b962707d5078d6d1fc7c6eb119a22.patch ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-ea12a34d338b962707d5078d6d1fc7c6eb119a22.patchPatch
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v5/changesets/squid-5-485c9a7bb1bba88754e07ad0094647ea57a6eb8d.patchPatch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00012.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00017.html
- https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-qf3v-rc95-96j5Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00005.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3RG5FGSTCAYVIJPJHIY3MRZ7NFT6HDO7/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210312-0001/