Vulnerability Report

CVE-2020-8517

Title: Squid-Cache Squid Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2020-8517.

CWE Category CWE-20
Published Date Feb 04, 2020
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
6.85%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2020-8517: An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.10. Due to incorrect input validation, the NTLM authentication credentials parser in ext_lm_group_acl may write to memory outside the credentials buffer. On systems with memory access protections, this can result in the helper process being terminated unexpectedly. This leads to the Squid process also terminating and a denial of service for all clients using the proxy.

Impacted Vendors

S
squid 1
S
squid-cache 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00012.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00010.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00018.html http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2020_3.txt http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-6982f1187a26557e582172965e266f544ea562a5.patch https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-34 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210304-0002/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4289-1/ http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00012.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00010.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00018.html http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2020_3.txt http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-6982f1187a26557e582172965e266f544ea562a5.patch https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-34 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210304-0002/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4289-1/
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 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:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2020-8517 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:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.