CVE-2019-18678
What it is
An issue was discovered in Squid 3.x and 4.x through 4.8. It allows attackers to smuggle HTTP requests through frontend software to a Squid instance that splits the HTTP Request pipeline differently. The resulting Response messages corrupt caches (between a client and Squid) with attacker-controlled content at arbitrary URLs. Effects are isolated to software between the attacker client and Squid. There are no effects on Squid itself, nor on any upstream servers. The issue is related to a request header containing whitespace between a header name and a colon.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network without logging in. Limited direct impact.
- Exploit odds
- 6.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- A patch, advisory or fixed version is referenced. Upgrade or apply it.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 6.2% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 5.3 MEDIUM (CVSS).
- Fix: a patch or advisory is linked.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 6.2% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-444
- Record status
- Modified
Affected
- squid-cache Squid ≤ 3.5.28
- squid-cache Squid ≤ 4.8
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.10
- Debian Linux 8.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora 30
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 5.3
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Is it in your code?
Hand this to your coding agent. It searches your project for the affected products and checks versions. Nothing leaves your machine.
Read https://cve-list.com/agent/cve/CVE-2019-18678.md and follow it. Check whether this project is affected by CVE-2019-18678. Read only. Don't change anything and don't upload my code. Tell me yes, no or not sure, with the file as proof.
Fix and advisories
References
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2019_10.txt
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-671ba97abe929156dc4c717ee52ad22fba0f7443.patch
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156323
- https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/pull/445
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00009.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MTM74TU2BSLT5B3H4F3UDW53672NVLMC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UEMOYTMCCFWK5NOXSXEIH5D2VGWVXR67/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-34
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4213-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4682
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2019_10.txt
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-671ba97abe929156dc4c717ee52ad22fba0f7443.patch
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1156323
- https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/pull/445
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00011.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00009.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MTM74TU2BSLT5B3H4F3UDW53672NVLMC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UEMOYTMCCFWK5NOXSXEIH5D2VGWVXR67/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-34
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4213-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4682