CVE-2023-5824
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · CWE-755
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7465
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7668
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0072
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0397
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0771
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0772
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0773
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1153