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CVE-2019-12854
Due to incorrect string termination, Squid cachemgr.cgi 4.0 through 4.7 may access unallocated memory. On systems with memory access…
High7.5EPSS 11.7%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
Due to incorrect string termination, Squid cachemgr.cgi 4.0 through 4.7 may access unallocated memory. On systems with memory access protections, this can cause the CGI process to terminate unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service for all clients using it.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.7% · top 3.9% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2019_1.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4937 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-2981a957716c61ff7e21eee1d7d6eb5a237e466d.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SPXN2CLAGN5QSQBTOV5IGVLDOQSRFNTZ/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-4507 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 20190825 [SECURITY] [DSA 4507-1] squid security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2540 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2541 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-4213-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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