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CVE-2024-45802: Squid Denial of Service

7.5 CVSS

Description

Squid is an open source caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to Input Validation, Premature Release of Resource During Expected Lifetime, and Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime bugs, Squid is vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks by a trusted server against all clients using the proxy. This bug is fixed in the default build configuration of Squid version 6.10.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-45802

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.5

Affected Products

Vendor: squid-cache

Product: squid

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.12% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 46.88% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-f975-v7qw-q7hj

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