Information disclosure in Squid - CVE-2016-10002

 

Information disclosure in Squid - CVE-2016-10002

Published: September 14, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU8429
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-10002
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect HTTP conditional request handling. A remote attacker can obtain private and sensitive information about another clients browsing session, including user's credentials.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.

Affected software

Squid
squid (Alpine package)
squid
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Ubuntu
Fedora

How to mitigate CVE-2016-10002

Update to version 3.5.23 or 4.0.17.

squid (Alpine package) - update to 3.5.23-r0
squid - addressed in versions 3.5.23-1.fc24, 4.0.17-1.fc25

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