THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2011-3205
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2011-3205

Squid vulnerability

CVSS
6.8
EPSS
27.5%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
Buffer overflow in the gopherToHTML function in gopher.cc in the Gopher reply parser in Squid 3.0 before 3.0.STABLE26, 3.1 before 3.1.15, and 3.2 before 3.2.0.11 allows remote Gopher servers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and daemon restart) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long line in a response. NOTE: This issue exists because of a CVE-2005-0094 regression.
Affected vendor
Squid Cache
Affected product
Squid
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2011-09-06

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 27.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2011-3205

  • Confirm whether Squid Cache Squid is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2011-3205.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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