Out-of-bounds read in Squid - CVE-2019-12529
Published: August 29, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU20460
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12529
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Squid-cache.org
Affected software:
Squid
Squid
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when parsing username in the Proxy-Authorization header during HTTP Basic authentication. A remote attacker can send specially crafted request to the Squid proxy server and retrieve parts of memory contents, if the Squid maintainer had configured the display of usernames on error pages.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-12529
Install updates from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-dd46b5417809647f561d8a5e0e74c3aacd235258.patch
- https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commits/v4
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00018.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4065-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4065-2/