Vulnerability Report

CVE-2020-11945

RCE

Title: Squid Digest Authentication Nonce Replay

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2020-11945.

CWE Category CWE-190
Published Date Apr 23, 2020
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 9.8 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
27.25%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2020-11945: An issue was discovered in Squid before 5.0.2. A remote attacker can replay a sniffed Digest Authentication nonce to gain access to resources that are otherwise forbidden. This occurs because the attacker can overflow the nonce reference counter (a short integer). Remote code execution may occur if the pooled token credentials are freed (instead of replayed as valid credentials).

Impacted Vendors

S
squid 1
S
squid-cache 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00018.html http://master.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-eeebf0f37a72a2de08348e85ae34b02c34e9a811.patch http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/23/2 http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-eeebf0f37a72a2de08348e85ae34b02c34e9a811.patch https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170313 https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/eeebf0f37a72a2de08348e85ae34b02c34e9a811 https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/pull/585 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00009.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4FWQRYZJPHAZBLXJ56FPCHJN5X2FP3VA/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/H4MWXEZAJSOGRJSS2JCJK4WBSND4IV46/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RV2VZWFJNO3B56IVN56HHKJASG5DYUIX/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-05 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210304-0004/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4356-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4682 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00018.html http://master.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-eeebf0f37a72a2de08348e85ae34b02c34e9a811.patch http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/23/2 http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-eeebf0f37a72a2de08348e85ae34b02c34e9a811.patch https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1170313 https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/eeebf0f37a72a2de08348e85ae34b02c34e9a811 https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/pull/585 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00009.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4FWQRYZJPHAZBLXJ56FPCHJN5X2FP3VA/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/H4MWXEZAJSOGRJSS2JCJK4WBSND4IV46/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RV2VZWFJNO3B56IVN56HHKJASG5DYUIX/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-05 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210304-0004/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4356-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4682
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity CRITICAL
9.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2020-11945 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.