Detections
Analytics
Squid < 2.5.STABLE8 DoS
medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 2520
Synopsis
The remote proxy server is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.Description
The remote Squid caching proxy, according to its version number, may be vulnerable to a remote denial of service.This flaw is caused due to an input validation error in the NTLM module.
An attacker can exploit this flaw to crash the server with a specially crafted packet.
The remote Squid proxy is also vulnerable to a cache-corruption flaw due to incorrect parsing of malformed HTTP headers. An attacker exploiting this flaw would be able to poison the cache.
The remote Squid proxy is vulnerable to an authentication bypass
in the squid_ldap_auth module as well as a remote overflow due to oversized HTTP headers.
Solution
Upgrade to Squid 2.5.STABLE8 or higher.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 2520
Family: Web Servers
Published: 1/21/2005
Updated: 3/6/2019
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.3
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 4.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.3
Temporal Score: 5.1
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:X/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:squid-cache:squid
Patch Publication Date: 1/8/2005
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/8/2005
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2005-0096, CVE-2005-0097, CVE-2005-0173, CVE-2005-0174, CVE-2005-0175, CVE-2005-0211, CVE-2005-0241