Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-2479

Title: Squid Web Proxy Cache DNS operation error message information disclosure

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2004-2479.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 31, 2004

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.08%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-2479: Squid Web Proxy Cache 2.5 might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via URLs containing invalid hostnames that cause DNS operations to fail, which results in references to previously used error messages.

Impacted Vendors

national_science_foundation 1

squid 1

Reference Links

http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml http://secunia.com/advisories/13408 http://secunia.com/advisories/16977 http://securitytracker.com/id?1012466 http://www.osvdb.org/12282 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-766.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11865 http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1143 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18406 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9711 http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml http://secunia.com/advisories/13408 http://secunia.com/advisories/16977 http://securitytracker.com/id?1012466 http://www.osvdb.org/12282 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-766.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11865 http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1143 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18406 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9711

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-2479 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 31, 2004 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.