Vulnerability Report

CVE-2020-15049

Title: Squid-Cache Squid

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2020-15049.

CWE Category CWE-444
Published Date Jun 30, 2020
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 9.9 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
5.71%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2020-15049: An issue was discovered in http/ContentLengthInterpreter.cc in Squid before 4.12 and 5.x before 5.0.3. A Request Smuggling and Poisoning attack can succeed against the HTTP cache. The client sends an HTTP request with a Content-Length header containing "+\ "-" or an uncommon shell whitespace character prefix to the length field-value.

Impacted Vendors

S
squid 1
S
squid-cache 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00012.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00017.html http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-ea12a34d338b962707d5078d6d1fc7c6eb119a22.patch http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v5/changesets/squid-5-485c9a7bb1bba88754e07ad0094647ea57a6eb8d.patch https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-qf3v-rc95-96j5 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00005.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3RG5FGSTCAYVIJPJHIY3MRZ7NFT6HDO7/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210312-0001/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4551-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4732 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00012.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00017.html http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-ea12a34d338b962707d5078d6d1fc7c6eb119a22.patch http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v5/changesets/squid-5-485c9a7bb1bba88754e07ad0094647ea57a6eb8d.patch https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-qf3v-rc95-96j5 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00005.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3RG5FGSTCAYVIJPJHIY3MRZ7NFT6HDO7/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210312-0001/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4551-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4732
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
8.8
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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity CRITICAL
9.9
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
CHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2020-15049 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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.