VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-1000027

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability12.91%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-02-09
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

The Squid Software Foundation Squid HTTP Caching Proxy version prior to version 4.0.23 contains a NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in HTTP Response X-Forwarded-For header processing that can result in Denial of Service to all clients of the proxy. This attack appear to be exploitable via Remote HTTP server responding with an X-Forwarded-For header to certain types of HTTP request. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 4.0.23 and later.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Primary references