CVE-2023-49286
HIGH7.5EPSS 1.7%Published: 12/4/2023Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to an Incorrect Check of Function Return Value bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against its Helper process management. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/squidfrom 0, < 6.5-r0
- Debian/squidfrom 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 |