Improper Input Validation Affecting libecap-debuginfo package, versions <0:1.0.1-2.module+el8.4.0+404+316a0dc5


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Rocky Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.87% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ROCKY8-LIBECAPDEBUGINFO-3296967
  • published 3 Feb 2023
  • disclosed 15 Apr 2020

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 libecap-debuginfo to version 0:1.0.1-2.module+el8.4.0+404+316a0dc5 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2020:4743.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libecap-debuginfo package and not the libecap-debuginfo package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Squid through 4.7 and 5. When receiving a request, Squid checks its cache to see if it can serve up a response. It does this by making a MD5 hash of the absolute URL of the request. If found, it servers the request. The absolute URL can include the decoded UserInfo (username and password) for certain protocols. This decoded info is prepended to the domain. This allows an attacker to provide a username that has special characters to delimit the domain, and treat the rest of the URL as a path or query string. An attacker could first make a request to their domain using an encoded username, then when a request for the target domain comes in that decodes to the exact URL, it will serve the attacker's HTML instead of the real HTML. On Squid servers that also act as reverse proxies, this allows an attacker to gain access to features that only reverse proxies can use, such as ESI.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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Red Hat

7.4 high