CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-50269

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Dec 14, 2023 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an Uncontrolled Recursion bug in versions 2.6 through 2.7.STABLE9, versions 3.1 through 5.9, and versions 6.0.1 through 6.5, Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against HTTP Request parsing. This problem allows a remote client to perform Denial of Service attack by sending a large X-Forwarded-For header when the follow_x_forwarded_for feature is configured. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.6. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the stable releases can be found in Squids patch archives.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Squid Squid-cache 3.1 (including) 5.9 (including)
Squid Squid-cache 6.0.1 (including) 6.5 (including)
Squid Squid-cache 2.6 (including) 2.6 (including)
Squid Squid-cache 2.7 (including) 2.7 (including)
Squid Squid-cache 2.7-stable1 (including) 2.7-stable1 (including)
Squid Squid-cache 2.7-stable2 (including) 2.7-stable2 (including)
Squid Squid-cache 2.7-stable3 (including) 2.7-stable3 (including)
Squid Squid-cache 2.7-stable4 (including) 2.7-stable4 (including)
Squid Squid-cache 2.7-stable5 (including) 2.7-stable5 (including)
Squid Squid-cache 2.7-stable6 (including) 2.7-stable6 (including)
Squid Squid-cache 2.7-stable7 (including) 2.7-stable7 (including)
Squid Squid-cache 2.7-stable8 (including) 2.7-stable8 (including)
Squid Squid-cache 2.7-stable9 (including) 2.7-stable9 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat squid-7:3.5.20-17.el7_9.10 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat squid:4-8090020240314114525.a75119d5 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support RedHat squid:4-8020020240122164331.4cda2c84 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service RedHat squid:4-8020020240122164331.4cda2c84 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions RedHat squid:4-8020020240122164331.4cda2c84 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support RedHat squid:4-8040020240122165847.522a0ee4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service RedHat squid:4-8040020240122165847.522a0ee4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions RedHat squid:4-8040020240122165847.522a0ee4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support RedHat squid:4-8060020231222131040.ad008a3a *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support RedHat squid:4-8080020231222130009.63b34585 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RedHat squid-7:5.5-6.el9_3.8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support RedHat squid-7:5.2-1.el9_0.4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support RedHat squid-7:5.5-5.el9_2.4 *
Squid Ubuntu bionic *
Squid Ubuntu devel *
Squid Ubuntu focal *
Squid Ubuntu jammy *
Squid Ubuntu lunar *
Squid Ubuntu mantic *
Squid Ubuntu noble *
Squid Ubuntu trusty *
Squid Ubuntu xenial *
Squid3 Ubuntu bionic *
Squid3 Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Squid3 Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Squid3 Ubuntu trusty *
Squid3 Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References