RHEL 8 : squid:4 (RHSA-2020:3623)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 140579

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for squid:4.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:3623 advisory.

- squid: HTTP Request Smuggling could result in cache poisoning (CVE-2020-15810)

- squid: HTTP Request Splitting could result in cache poisoning (CVE-2020-15811)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL squid:4 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:3623.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 140579

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-3623.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/14/2020

Updated: 4/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-15811

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libecap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libecap-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.1, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:squid, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/3/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/25/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15810, CVE-2020-15811

CWE: 444

IAVB: 2020-B-0050-S

RHSA: 2020:3623

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