CVE-2023-49286
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.7%
Description
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to an Incorrect Check of Function Return Value bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against its Helper process management. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2023-49286
To remediate CVE-2023-49286, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 6.5-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 4.13-10+deb11u3 or later
Is CVE-2023-49286 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 6.5-r0
- from 0, < 4.13-10+deb11u3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |