CVE-2018-1000027 Information

Description

The Squid Software Foundation Squid HTTP Caching Proxy version prior to version 4.0.23 contains a NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in HTTP Response X-Forwarded-For header processing that can result in Denial of Service to all clients of the proxy. This attack appear to be exploitable via Remote HTTP server responding with an X-Forwarded-For header to certain types of HTTP request. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 4.0.23 and later.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2018_2.txt http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.5/changesets/SQUID-2018_2.patch http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/SQUID-2018_2.patch https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/pull/129/files https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00001.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00002.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3557-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4059-2/ https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4122

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5