Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity Affecting squid package, versions [,3.5.18)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SQUID-2370886
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 May 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 May 2016

CVE-2016-4554  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-345  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade squid to version 3.5.18 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity mime_header.cc in Squid before 3.5.18 allows remote attackers to bypass intended same-origin restrictions and possibly conduct cache-poisoning attacks via a crafted HTTP Host header, aka a "header smuggling" issue.

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