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MiracleLinux 8 : squid:4 (AXSA:2021-1405:01)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 293924

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Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2021-1405:01 advisory.

 * squid: Improper input validation in request allows for proxy manipulation (CVE-2019-12520)
 * squid: Off-by-one error in addStackElement allows for heap buffer overflow and crash (CVE-2019-12521)
 * squid: Improper input validation in URI processor (CVE-2019-12523)
 * squid: Improper access restriction in url_regex may lead to security bypass (CVE-2019-12524)
 * squid: Heap overflow issue in URN processing (CVE-2019-12526)
 * squid: Information Disclosure issue in FTP Gateway (CVE-2019-12528)
 * squid: Out of bounds read in Proxy-Authorization header causes DoS (CVE-2019-12529)
 * squid: Denial of service in cachemgr.cgi (CVE-2019-12854)
 * squid: Buffer overflow in URI processor (CVE-2019-18676)
 * squid: Cross-Site Request Forgery issue in HTTP Request processing (CVE-2019-18677)
 * squid: HTTP Request Splitting issue in HTTP message processing (CVE-2019-18678)
 * squid: Information Disclosure issue in HTTP Digest Authentication (CVE-2019-18679)
 * squid: Mishandled HTML in the host parameter to cachemgr.cgi results in insecure behaviour (CVE-2019-18860)
 * squid: Improper input validation issues in HTTP Request processing (CVE-2020-8449)
 * squid: Buffer overflow in reverse-proxy configurations (CVE-2020-8450)
 * squid: DoS in TLS handshake (CVE-2020-14058)
 * squid: Request smuggling and poisoning attack against the HTTP cache (CVE-2020-15049)
 * squid: Improper input validation could result in a DoS (CVE-2020-24606)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/12587

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 293924

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2021-1405.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/20/2026

Updated: 1/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8450

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12526

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:miracle:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:libecap-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:libecap-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:squid, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:libecap, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:squid-debugsource

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/MiracleLinux/release, Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/5/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/11/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-12520, CVE-2019-12521, CVE-2019-12523, CVE-2019-12524, CVE-2019-12526, CVE-2019-12528, CVE-2019-12529, CVE-2019-12854, CVE-2019-18676, CVE-2019-18677, CVE-2019-18678, CVE-2019-18679, CVE-2019-18860, CVE-2020-14058, CVE-2020-15049, CVE-2020-24606, CVE-2020-8449, CVE-2020-8450