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CVE-2019-12520
published 2020-04-15

CVE-2019-12520: An issue was discovered in Squid through 4.7 and 5. When receiving a request, Squid checks its cache to see if it can serve up a response. It does this by…

PriorityP346high7.5CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUINSUCHINAN
EPSS
3.94%
89.1th percentile
An issue was discovered in Squid through 4.7 and 5. When receiving a request, Squid checks its cache to see if it can serve up a response. It does this by making a MD5 hash of the absolute URL of the request. If found, it servers the request. The absolute URL can include the decoded UserInfo (username and password) for certain protocols. This decoded info is prepended to the domain. This allows an attacker to provide a username that has special characters to delimit the domain, and treat the rest of the URL as a path or query string. An attacker could first make a request to their domain using an encoded username, then when a request for the target domain comes in that decodes to the exact URL, it will serve the attacker's HTML instead of the real HTML. On Squid servers that also act as reverse proxies, this allows an attacker to gain access to features that only reverse proxies can use, such as ESI.

Affected

10 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
canonicalubuntu_linux
canonicalubuntu_linux
debiandebian_linux
debiandebian_linux
debiansquid< squid 4.8-1 (bookworm)squid 4.8-1 (bookworm)
squid-cachesquid<= 4.7
squidsquid>= 0 < 4.8-14.8-1
squidsquid>= 0 < 4.8-14.8-1
squidsquid>= 0 < 4.8-14.8-1
squidsquid>= 0 < 4.8-14.8-1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.5HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
osv7.5HIGH
vendor_debian7.5HIGH
vendor_redhat7.5HIGH
vendor_ubuntu7.5HIGH
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