HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting squid package, versions [2.0,2.7)[3.1,3.5.28][4.0,4.12)[5.0,5.0.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.01% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SQUID-2370908
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Jun 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-15049  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-444  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade squid to version 2.7, 4.12, 5.0.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling. An issue was discovered in http/ContentLengthInterpreter.cc in Squid before 4.12 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A Request Smuggling and Poisoning attack can succeed against the HTTP cache. The client sends an HTTP request with a Content-Length header containing "+\ "-" or an uncommon shell whitespace character prefix to the length field-value.

CVSS Scores

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