Resource management error in Squid - CVE-2024-45802
Published: October 28, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU99355
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45802
CWE-ID: CWE-399
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 perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application when processing ESI response content. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that Squid is acting as reverse proxy where ESI feature has been enabled at build time.
How to mitigate CVE-2024-45802
Install updates from vendor's website.