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Alpine: multiple squid packages: security update to 6.6-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424504

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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 Squid's patch archives. (CVE-2023-50269)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-50269

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 424504

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Published: 4/4/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-50269

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-50269