VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-28651

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability7.45%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-05-27
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.15 and 5.x before 5.0.6. Due to a buffer-management bug, it allows a denial of service. When resolving a request with the urn: scheme, the parser leaks a small amount of memory. However, there is an unspecified attack methodology that can easily trigger a large amount of memory consumption.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-401

Primary references