vulnerability
Alma Linux: CVE-2020-15049: Moderate: squid:4 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4743)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Jun 30, 2020 | May 4, 2022 | Mar 31, 2026 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 30, 2020
Added
May 4, 2022
Modified
Mar 31, 2026
Description
An issue was discovered in http/ContentLengthInterpreter.cc in Squid before 4.12 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A Request Smuggling and Poisoning attack can succeed against the HTTP cache. The client sends an HTTP request with a Content-Length header containing "+\ "-" or an uncommon shell whitespace character prefix to the length field-value.
Solutions
alma-upgrade-libecapalma-upgrade-libecap-devel
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