Vulnerability Report

CVE-2024-25111

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

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2024-25111.

CWE Category CWE-674
Published Date Mar 06, 2024
Modified Date Nov 03, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 8.6 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
65.25%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2024-25111: Squid is a web proxy cache. Starting in version 3.5.27 and prior to version 6.8, Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against HTTP Chunked decoder due to an uncontrolled recursion bug. This problem allows a remote attacker to cause Denial of Service when sending a crafted, chunked, encoded HTTP Message. This bug is fixed in Squid version 6.8. In addition, patches addressing this problem for the stable releases can be found in Squid's patch archives. There is no workaround for this issue.

Impacted Vendors

S
squid 1
S
squid-cache 1
N
netapp 1

Reference Links

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v6/SQUID-2024_1.patch https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-72c2-c3wm-8qxc https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7R4KPSO3MQT3KAOZV7LC2GG3CYMCGK7H/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XWQHRDRHDM5PQTU6BHH4C5KGL37X6TVI/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240605-0001/ http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v6/SQUID-2024_1.patch https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-72c2-c3wm-8qxc https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00009.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7R4KPSO3MQT3KAOZV7LC2GG3CYMCGK7H/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XWQHRDRHDM5PQTU6BHH4C5KGL37X6TVI/ https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240605-0001/
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 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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2024-25111 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:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.