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Alpine: multiple squid packages: security update to 6.1-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424530

Description

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

 - Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Affected versions of squid are
 subject to a a Use-After-Free bug which can lead to a Denial of Service attack via collapsed forwarding.
 All versions of Squid from 3.5 up to and including 5.9 configured with "collapsed_forwarding on" are
 vulnerable. Configurations with "collapsed_forwarding off" or without a "collapsed_forwarding" directive
 are not vulnerable. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.0.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable
 to upgrade should remove all collapsed_forwarding lines from their squid.conf. (CVE-2023-49288)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-49288

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 424530

Version: Revision 1.7

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-2023-49288

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: 12/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-49288