VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-12522

CVSS score4.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.34%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-04-15
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Description

An issue was discovered in Squid through 4.7. When Squid is run as root, it spawns its child processes as a lesser user, by default the user nobody. This is done via the leave_suid call. leave_suid leaves the Saved UID as 0. This makes it trivial for an attacker who has compromised the child process to escalate their privileges back to root.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-269

Primary references