CVE-2020-15810 — HTTP Request Smuggling in Squid
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.8
EPSS
0.2%
top 56.37%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 2
Latest updateSep 28
Description
An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.13 and 5.x before 5.0.4. Due to incorrect data validation, HTTP Request Smuggling 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 proxy cache and any downstream caches with content from an arbitrary source. When configured for relaxed header parsing (the default), Squid relays headers containing whitespace characters to upstream s…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 9.0, Fedora 31, 32, 33, Ubuntu Linux 16.04, 18.04, 20.04