Squid DoS Vulnerability (GHSA-72c2-c3wm-8qxc, SQUID-2024:1)
🗓️ 20 Oct 2023 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 135 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 2023 : squid (ALAS2023-2024-578) | 3 Apr 202400:00 | – | nessus | |
| Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0081: squid:4 (ALINUX3-SA-2024:0081) | 14 May 202500:00 | – | nessus | |
| Debian dla-4083 : squid - security update | 11 Mar 202500:00 | – | nessus | |
| Debian dsa-5637 : squid - security update | 8 Mar 202400:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 38 : squid (2024-a414a81d47) | 25 Apr 202400:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 39 : squid (2024-bd8c6c6926) | 25 Apr 202400:00 | – | nessus | |
| MiracleLinux 9 : squid-5.5-6.el9_3.8 (AXSA:2024-7624:02) | 20 Jan 202600:00 | – | nessus | |
| MiracleLinux 8 : squid:4 (AXSA:2024-7632:01) | 20 Jan 202600:00 | – | nessus | |
| Oracle Linux 8 : squid:4 (ELSA-2024-1375) | 21 Mar 202400:00 | – | nessus | |
| Oracle Linux 9 : squid (ELSA-2024-1376) | 20 Mar 202400:00 | – | nessus |
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:squid-cache:squid";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.114405");
script_version("2025-02-28T05:38:49+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-02-28 05:38:49 +0000 (Fri, 28 Feb 2025)");
# nb: This was initially a single VT which got split into multiple later. As we covered all flaws
# at this time the original creation_date has been kept in all later created VTs.
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2023-10-20 08:47:30 +0000 (Fri, 20 Oct 2023)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2025-02-26 17:49:12 +0000 (Wed, 26 Feb 2025)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2024-25111");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Squid DoS Vulnerability (GHSA-72c2-c3wm-8qxc, SQUID-2024:1)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web Servers");
script_dependencies("gb_squid_http_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("squid/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Squid is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in the
HTTP Chunked Decoding.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Due to an Uncontrolled Recursion bug, Squid may be vulnerable to
a Denial of Service attack against HTTP Chunked decoder.
This flaw was part of the 'Squid Caching Proxy Security Audit: 55 vulnerabilities and 35 0days'
publication in October 2023 and filed as 'Chunked Encoding Stack Overflow'.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Squid version 3.5.27 through 6.7.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 6.8 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-72c2-c3wm-8qxc");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://megamansec.github.io/Squid-Security-Audit/");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://joshua.hu/squid-security-audit-35-0days-45-exploits");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/11/3");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://gist.github.com/rousskov/9af0d33d2a1f4b5b3b948b2da426e77d");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://megamansec.github.io/Squid-Security-Audit/chunked-stackoverflow.html");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_in_range_exclusive(version: version, test_version_lo: "3.5.27", test_version_up: "6.7")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "6.8", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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28 Feb 2025 00:00Current
7.9High risk
Vulners AI Score7.9
CVSS 3.17.5 - 8.6
EPSS0.65254
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