CVE-2019-18678

Summary

CVECVE-2019-18678
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-11-26 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:06:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in Squid 3.x and 4.x through 4.8. It allows attackers to smuggle HTTP requests through frontend software to a Squid instance that splits the HTTP Request pipeline differently. The resulting Response messages corrupt caches (between a client and Squid) with attacker-controlled content at arbitrary URLs. Effects are isolated to software between the attacker client and Squid. There are no effects on Squid itself, nor on any upstream servers. The issue is related to a request header containing whitespace between a header name and a colon.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-444

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Application Squid-cache Squid All All All All
Application Squid-cache Squid All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 2278-1] squid3 security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: squid-4.9-2.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Squid: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202003-34) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-671ba97abe929156dc4c717ee52ad2... CONFIRM www.squid-cache.org Release Notes
RFC 7230: server MUST reject messages with BWS after field-name by yadij · Pull Request #445 · squid-cache/squid · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Bug 1156323 – VUL-0: CVE-2019-18678: squid,squid3: incorrect message parsing leads to HTTP request splitting issue CONFIRM bugzilla.suse.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
USN-4213-1: Squid vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: squid-4.9-2.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2028-1] squid3 security update MLIST lists.debian.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: squid-4.9-2.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4682-1 squid DEBIAN www.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: squid-4.9-2.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2019_10.txt CONFIRM www.squid-cache.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159658 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for squid:4 (ELSA-2020-4743)
  • 296075 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 21.69.0 Missing (CPUAPR2020)
  • 356277 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for squid : ALASSQUID4-2023-007
  • 356430 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for squid : ALAS2-2023-2318
  • 377360 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for squid:4 (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0124)
  • 940034 AlmaLinux Security Update for squid:4 (ALSA-2020:4743)
  • 960867 Rocky Linux Security Update for squid:4 (RLSA-2020:4743)
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