7.5
HIGH
CVE-2023-46728
Squid Gopher Protocol NULL Pointer Denial of Service Vulnerability
Description

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a NULL pointer dereference bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Squid's Gopher gateway. The gopher protocol is always available and enabled in Squid prior to Squid 6.0.1. Responses triggering this bug are possible to be received from any gopher server, even those without malicious intent. Gopher support has been removed in Squid version 6.0.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should reject all gopher URL requests.

INFO

Published Date :

Nov. 6, 2023, 6:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 8:29 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2023-46728 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2023-46728 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Squid-cache squid

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

A detailed repository of vulnerabilities that I discovered in The Squid Caching Proxy.

Updated: 1 month ago
22 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : Oct. 9, 2023, 3:44 p.m. This repo has been linked 22 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2023-46728 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2023-46728 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/6ea12e8fb590ac6959e9356a81aa3370576568c3
    Added Reference https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-cg5h-v6vc-w33f
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/A5QASTMCUSUEW3UOMKHZJB3FTONWSRXS/
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MEV66D3PAAY6K7TWDT3WZBLCPLASFJDC/
    Added Reference https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231214-0006/
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 29, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MEV66D3PAAY6K7TWDT3WZBLCPLASFJDC/ [No types assigned]
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/A5QASTMCUSUEW3UOMKHZJB3FTONWSRXS/ [No types assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 14, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231214-0006/ [No types assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Nov. 14, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/6ea12e8fb590ac6959e9356a81aa3370576568c3 No Types Assigned https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/6ea12e8fb590ac6959e9356a81aa3370576568c3 Patch
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-cg5h-v6vc-w33f No Types Assigned https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-cg5h-v6vc-w33f Vendor Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 6.0.1
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.53 }} 0.08%

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0.77781

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