HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting squid package, versions [,4.13)[5.0,5.0.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SQUID-2370845
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Sept 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-15811  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-444  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade squid to version 4.13, 5.0.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling. An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.13 and 5.x before 5.0.4. Due to incorrect data validation, HTTP Request Splitting attacks may succeed against HTTP and HTTPS traffic. This leads to cache poisoning. This allows any client, including browser scripts, to bypass local security and poison the browser cache and any downstream caches with content from an arbitrary source. Squid uses a string search instead of parsing the Transfer-Encoding header to find chunked encoding. This allows an attacker to hide a second request inside Transfer-Encoding: it is interpreted by Squid as chunked and split out into a second request delivered upstream. Squid will then deliver two distinct responses to the client, corrupting any downstream caches.

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