CVE-2020-15811

An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.13 and 5.x before 5.0.4

published September 2, 2020

CVSS
—
EPSS
4%
Percentile
90.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.04069 · 90.6th percentile
Published
2020-09-02T16:35Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 SEP 16:35Z
    An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.13 and 5.x before 5.0.4
    cvelistv5