MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2014-9749

Squid vulnerability

CVSS
4.0
EPSS
11.4%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
Squid 3.4.4 through 3.4.11 and 3.5.0.1 through 3.5.1, when Digest authentication is used, allow remote authenticated users to retain access by leveraging a stale nonce, aka "Nonce replay vulnerability."
Affected vendor
Squid Cache
Affected product
Squid
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Published
2015-11-06

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 11.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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