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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Squid vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-54574)

🗓️ 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
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Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 Squid CVE-2025-54574; heap overflow in versions 6.3 and earlier; fixed in 6.4.

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu CVE-2025-54574. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <https://ubuntu.com/security/notices>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(272117);
  script_version("1.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/10/31");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2025-54574");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Squid vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-54574)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple
vulnerabilities as referenced in the Ubuntu CVE-2025-54574 page.

    Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. In versions 6.3 and below, Squid is vulnerable to a heap buffer 
    overflow and possible remote code execution attack when processing URN due to incorrect buffer 
    management. This has been fixed in version 6.4. To work around this issue, disable 
    URN access permissions.

    Ths commit to fix this issue is the same commit that fixed CVE-2023-5824 in USN-6728-1, USN-6728-2, 
    and USN-6728-3. See CVE-2023-5824 for additional commits.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-54574");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2025-54574");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2025/08/01");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2025/08/01");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/10/31");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid-cgi");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid-common");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid-openssl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squid-purge");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:squidclient");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2025 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2025 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}

include('debian_package.inc');

if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled') ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/release');
if ( isnull(os_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu');
os_release = chomp(os_release);
if (! ('20.04' >< os_release || '22.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 20.04 / 22.04', 'Ubuntu ' + os_release);
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/Debian/dpkg-l') ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Ubuntu', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'squid', 'pkgver': '4.10-1ubuntu1.10', 'cves': ['CVE-2025-54574']},
    {'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'squid-cgi', 'pkgver': '4.10-1ubuntu1.10', 'cves': ['CVE-2025-54574']},
    {'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'squid-common', 'pkgver': '4.10-1ubuntu1.10', 'cves': ['CVE-2025-54574']},
    {'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'squid-purge', 'pkgver': '4.10-1ubuntu1.10', 'cves': ['CVE-2025-54574']},
    {'osver': '20.04', 'pkgname': 'squidclient', 'pkgver': '4.10-1ubuntu1.10', 'cves': ['CVE-2025-54574']},
    {'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'squid', 'pkgver': '5.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.4', 'cves': ['CVE-2025-54574']},
    {'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'squid-cgi', 'pkgver': '5.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.4', 'cves': ['CVE-2025-54574']},
    {'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'squid-common', 'pkgver': '5.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.4', 'cves': ['CVE-2025-54574']},
    {'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'squid-openssl', 'pkgver': '5.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.4', 'cves': ['CVE-2025-54574']},
    {'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'squid-purge', 'pkgver': '5.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.4', 'cves': ['CVE-2025-54574']},
    {'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'squidclient', 'pkgver': '5.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.4', 'cves': ['CVE-2025-54574']}
   ];

var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var osver = NULL;
  var pkgname = NULL;
  var pkgver = NULL;
  var cves = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['osver'])) osver = package_array['osver'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgname'])) pkgname = package_array['pkgname'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgver'])) pkgver = package_array['pkgver'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cves'])) cves = package_array['cves'];
  if (osver && pkgname && pkgver) {
    if (deb_check(release:osver, prefix:pkgname, reference:pkgver, cves:cves)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  var extra = '';
  extra += ubuntu_report_get();
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : extra
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'squid / squid-cgi / squid-common / squid-openssl / squid-purge / etc');
}

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31 Oct 2025 00:00Current
8.7High risk
Vulners AI Score8.7
CVSS 3.19.3 - 9.8
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