VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-49286

CVSS score8.6 HIGH
EPSS probability10.35%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-12-04
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • security-advisories@github.com: CWE-253
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-617

Primary references