CVE-2016-4553

client_side.cc in Squid before 3.5.18 and 4.x before 4.0.10 does not properly ignore the Host header when absolute-URI is provided, which allows remote attackers to conduct cache-poisoning attacks via an HTTP request.

Score

CVSS 3.0 8.6 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2016-05-10

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-345

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Linux (Oracle)
• Squid (Squid-cache)

References

• http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4501
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00040.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00069.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3625
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035768
• http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2016_7.txt
• http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/changesets/squid-3.5-14039.patch
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2995-1
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1139
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1140
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-01