CVE-2023-5824
squid - security update
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.9%
Description
A flaw was found in Squid. The limits applied for validation of HTTP response headers are applied before caching. However, Squid may grow a cached HTTP response header beyond the configured maximum size, causing a stall or crash of the worker process when a large header is retrieved from the disk cache, resulting in a denial of service.
How to fix CVE-2023-5824
To remediate CVE-2023-5824, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 4.13-10+deb11u5 or later
- —upgrade to 5.7-2+deb12u3 or later
Is CVE-2023-5824 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.9%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 4.13-10+deb11u5
- from 0, < 5.7-2+deb12u3
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 |