Squid < 3.1.1 HTTP Header Injection

low Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 8698

Synopsis

The remote proxy server is affected by an HTTP injection vulnerability.

Description

Squid versions prior to 3.1.1 are affected by an HTML Injection vulnerability due to improper neutralization of CRLF sequences in HTTP headers. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by conducting HTTP response splitting attacks via a specially crafted header in a response.

Solution

Either upgrade to Squid version 3.1.1 or later, or apply the vendor-supplied patch.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 8698

Family: Web Servers

Published: 5/21/2015

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 82530

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/23/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/20/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0881

BID: 72703

Detections

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