CVE-2024-25111

8.6 HIGH
Published: March 06, 2024 Modified: November 03, 2025
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Description

Squid is a web proxy cache. Starting in version 3.5.27 and prior to version 6.8, Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against HTTP Chunked decoder due to an uncontrolled recursion bug. This problem allows a remote attacker to cause Denial of Service when sending a crafted, chunked, encoded HTTP Message. This bug is fixed in Squid version 6.8. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the stable releases can be found in Squid's patch archives. There is no workaround for this issue.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v6/SQUID-2024_1.patch
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Mailing List Patch
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-72c2-c3wm-8qxc
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Vendor Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7R4KPSO3MQT3KAOZV7LC2GG3CYMCGK7H/
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XWQHRDRHDM5PQTU6BHH4C5KGL37X6TVI/
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Mailing List
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240605-0001/
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Third Party Advisory
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v6/SQUID-2024_1.patch
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Patch
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-72c2-c3wm-8qxc
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00009.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7R4KPSO3MQT3KAOZV7LC2GG3CYMCGK7H/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XWQHRDRHDM5PQTU6BHH4C5KGL37X6TVI/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240605-0001/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory

11 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
8.6 / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
3.9%
88th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-674 CWE-674

Affected Vendors

squid-cache netapp fedoraproject

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