Vulnerability Report

CVE-2020-24606

Title: Denial of Service in Squid

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2020-24606.

CWE Category CWE-667
Published Date Aug 24, 2020
Modified Date Nov 21, 2024
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 8.6 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
5.16%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2020-24606: Squid before 4.13 and 5.x before 5.0.4 allows a trusted peer to perform Denial of Service by consuming all available CPU cycles during handling of a crafted Cache Digest response message. This only occurs when cache_peer is used with the cache digests feature. The problem exists because peerDigestHandleReply() livelocking in peer_digest.cc mishandles EOF.

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-2020_9.patch https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-vvj7-xjgq-g2jg https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00005.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BE6FKUN7IGTIR2MEEMWYDT7N5EJJLZI2/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BMTFLVB7GLRF2CKGFPZ4G4R5DIIPHWI3/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HJJDI7JQFGQLVNCKMVY64LAFMKERAOK7/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210219-0007/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210226-0006/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210226-0007/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4477-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4551-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4751 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-2020_9.patch https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-vvj7-xjgq-g2jg https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00005.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BE6FKUN7IGTIR2MEEMWYDT7N5EJJLZI2/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BMTFLVB7GLRF2CKGFPZ4G4R5DIIPHWI3/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HJJDI7JQFGQLVNCKMVY64LAFMKERAOK7/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210219-0007/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210226-0006/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210226-0007/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4477-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4551-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4751
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
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:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
8.6
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:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.1
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2020-24606 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

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:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.