Vulnerability · Published Nov 3, 2023 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2023-5824Squid: dos against http and https

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 from Red Hat. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 3.3% (higher than 89% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)3.3%top 11.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw was found in Squid. The limits applied for validation of HTTP response headers are applied before caching. However, Squid may grow a cached HTTP response header beyond the configured maximum size, causing a stall or crash of the worker process when a large header is retrieved from the disk cache, resulting in a denial of service.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8libecap1.0.1-2.module_el8.6.0+2741+01592ae8ALSA-2023:7668
AlmaLinux:8libecap1.0.1-2.module_el8.6.0+3048+383bc947ALSA-2023:7668
AlmaLinux:8libecap-devel1.0.1-2.module_el8.6.0+2741+01592ae8ALSA-2023:7668
AlmaLinux:8libecap-devel1.0.1-2.module_el8.6.0+3048+383bc947ALSA-2023:7668
AlmaLinux:8squid7:4.15-7.module_el8.9.0+3696+b881db49.3ALSA-2023:7668
AlmaLinux:9squid7:5.5-6.el9_3.2ALSA-2023:7465
Debian:12squid5.7-2+deb12u3DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5824
Debian:12squid5.7-2+deb12u3DSA-5982-1
Debian:13squid6.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5824
Debian:14squid6.5-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5824
Rocky Linux:8libecap0:1.0.1-2.module+el8.9.0+1437+df5ea8f0RLSA-2023:7668
Rocky Linux:8squid7:4.15-7.module+el8.9.0+1568+6d4fd5d4.1RLSA-2023:7668
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSsquid5.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.4USN-6728-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSsquid5.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.4UBUNTU-CVE-2023-5824
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSsquid6.5-1ubuntu1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-5824

Affected products (as reported)

Weakness: CWE-755 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References