Squid < 2.6 STABLE12 TRACE Request DoS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 3952

Synopsis

The remote proxy server is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability.

Description

A vulnerability in TRACE request processing has been reported in Squid that can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.6 STABLE12 or higher.

See Also

http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2007_1.txt

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 3952

Family: Web Servers

Published: 3/22/2007

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 24873

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:squid-cache:squid

Patch Publication Date: 3/20/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1560

BID: 23085