Description
An issue was discovered in http/ContentLengthInterpreter.cc in Squid before 4.12 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A Request Smuggling and Poisoning attack can succeed against the HTTP cache. The client sends an HTTP request with a Content-Length header containing "+\ "-" or an uncommon shell whitespace character prefix to the length field-value.
Published: 2020-06-30
Score: 9.9 Critical
EPSS: 15.7% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2394-1 squid3 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-7177 An issue was discovered in http/ContentLengthInterpreter.cc in Squid before 4.12 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A Request Smuggling and Poisoning attack can succeed against the HTTP cache. The client sends an HTTP request with a Content-Length header containing "+\ "-" or an uncommon shell whitespace character prefix to the length field-value.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4551-1 Squid vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4895-1 Squid vulnerabilities
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Fedoraproject Fedora
Redhat Enterprise Linux
Squid-cache Squid
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T13:08:21.396Z

Reserved: 2020-06-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-15049

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-06-30T18:15:12.367

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:04:41.830

Link: CVE-2020-15049

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-06-26T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-15049 - Bugzilla

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