HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting squid package, versions [3.0,3.5.28][4.0,4.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.7% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SQUID-2370840
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Nov 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-18678  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-444  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade squid to version 4.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling. An issue was discovered in Squid 3.x and 4.x through 4.8. It allows attackers to smuggle HTTP requests through frontend software to a Squid instance that splits the HTTP Request pipeline differently. The resulting Response messages corrupt caches (between a client and Squid) with attacker-controlled content at arbitrary URLs. Effects are isolated to software between the attacker client and Squid. There are no effects on Squid itself, nor on any upstream servers. The issue is related to a request header containing whitespace between a header name and a colon.

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