7.5
HIGH
CVE-2023-5824
Squid HTTP/HTTPS Client Denial of Service Vulnerability
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.

INFO

Published Date :

Nov. 3, 2023, 8:15 a.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 8:42 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2023-5824 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-2023-5824 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 Redhat enterprise_linux
1 Squid-cache squid
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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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-2023-5824 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2023-5824 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7465
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7668
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0072
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0397
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0771
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0772
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0773
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1153
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5824
    Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245914
    Added Reference https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-543m-w2m2-g255
    Added Reference https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231130-0003/
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 24, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Description Squid is vulnerable to Denial of Service attack against HTTP and HTTPS clients due to an Improper Handling of Structural Elements bug. 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.
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 16, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231130-0003/
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

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

    Apr. 25, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1153 [No types assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 12, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0771 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0772 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0773 [No types assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jan. 25, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0397 [No types assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jan. 08, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0072 [No types assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 13, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CWE Red Hat, Inc. CWE-755
    Removed CWE Red Hat, Inc. CWE-400
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 12, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed CVSS V3.1 Red Hat, Inc. AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
    Added CVSS V3.1 Red Hat, Inc. AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 06, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7668 [No types assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 30, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231130-0003/ [No types assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 22, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7465 [No types assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Nov. 13, 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://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5824 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5824 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245914 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245914 Issue Tracking
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-543m-w2m2-g255 No Types Assigned https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-543m-w2m2-g255 Vendor Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-755
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 6.4
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CWE Red Hat, Inc. CWE-400
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
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.

1.76 }} 0.42%

score

0.87652

percentile

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