CVE-2023-49285
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 88.8%
Description
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a Buffer Overread bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Squid HTTP Message processing. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2023-49285
To remediate CVE-2023-49285, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/squid—upgrade to 6.5-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 4.13-10+deb11u3 or later
Is CVE-2023-49285 being exploited?
Likely — EPSS is 88.8%, placing CVE-2023-49285 in the top tier of vulnerabilities by exploitation probability. Prioritise patching.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 6.5-r0
- from 0, < 4.13-10+deb11u3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |