THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-12526
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2019-12526

Squid vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
20.3%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.9. URN response handling in Squid suffers from a heap-based buffer overflow. When receiving data from a remote server in response to an URN request, Squid fails to ensure that the response can fit within the buffer. This leads to attacker controlled data overflowing in the heap.
Affected vendor
Squid Cache
Affected product
Squid
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2019-11-26

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 20.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-12526

  • Confirm whether Squid Cache Squid is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-12526.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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