CVE-2020-15049

high-risk
Published 2020-06-30

An issue was discovered in http/ContentLengthInterpreter.cc in Squid before 4.12 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A Request Smuggling and Poisoning attack can succeed against the HTTP cache. The client sends an HTTP request with a Content-Length header containing "+\ "-" or an uncommon shell whitespace character prefix to the length field-value.

Do I need to act?

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15.7% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 84% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Fix available
Upgrade to: 5ba5ba8c40cb11d62886ee60fe6c3646f815fdea, f4cfdb7a62168bef09f8cfa438c2a730206c82ed
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CVSS 9.9/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Vendors

62
/ 100
high-risk
Severity 33/34 · Critical
Exploitability 13/34 · Low
Exposure 16/34 · Moderate