Vulnerability Report

CVE-2021-28651

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

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2021-28651.

CWE Category CWE-401
Published Date May 27, 2021
Modified Date Nov 21, 2024
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
7.45%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2021-28651: An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.15 and 5.x before 5.0.6. Due to a buffer-management bug, it allows a denial of service. When resolving a request with the urn: scheme, the parser leaks a small amount of memory. However, there is an unspecified attack methodology that can easily trigger a large amount of memory consumption.

Impacted Vendors

N
novell 1
C
cubettechnologies 1
N
netapp 1
S
squid 1
S
squid-cache 1

Reference Links

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/14 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/11/3 https://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5104 https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-ch36-9jhx-phm4 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00014.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LSQ3U54ZCNXR44QRPW3AV2VCS6K3TKCF/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T4EPIWUZDJAXADDHVOPKRBTQHPBR6H66/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210716-0007/ https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4924 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/14 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/11/3 https://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5104 https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-ch36-9jhx-phm4 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00014.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LSQ3U54ZCNXR44QRPW3AV2VCS6K3TKCF/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T4EPIWUZDJAXADDHVOPKRBTQHPBR6H66/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210716-0007/ https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4924
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-2021-28651 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.