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CVE-2023-50269

Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.6
EPSS
0.57627
Risk score
54.57
CISA KEV
No
PoC
No
Published
2023-12-14
Modified
2025-05-21
First seen
2026-08-07
Aliases
EUVD-2023-55081
Products
squid-cache:squid 2.6, ≤ 2.7.STABLE9, squid-cache:squid 3.1, ≤ 5.9, squid-cache:squid 6.0.1, < 6.6
Sources
euvd EUVD-2023-55081

Description

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Due to an Uncontrolled Recursion bug in versions 2.6 through 2.7.STABLE9, versions 3.1 through 5.9, and versions 6.0.1 through 6.5, Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against HTTP Request parsing. This problem allows a remote client to perform Denial of Service attack by sending a large X-Forwarded-For header when the follow_x_forwarded_for feature is configured. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.6. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the stable releases can be found in Squid's patch archives.

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