What is CVE-2024-25617?

CVE-2024-25617 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Squid-cache Squid, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-02-14.

How severe is CVE-2024-25617?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-25617 known to be exploited?

4 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Resource exhaustion in Squid-cache Squid

CVE-2024-25617

Squid is an open source caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a Collapse of Data into Unsafe Value bug ,Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against HTTP header parsing. This problem allow…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.881 (99.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Squid-cache Squid — versions < 6.5

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-h5x6-w8mv-xfpr (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/72a3bbd5e431597c3fdb56d752bc56b010ba3817 (x_refsource_MISC)
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240322-0006/

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-25617?: CVE-2024-25617 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Squid-cache Squid, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2024-02-14.
How severe is CVE-2024-25617?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-25617 known to be exploited?: 4 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.