USN-4356-1

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    USN-4356-1

    Published: 13 May 2020Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    Summary: squid, squid3 vulnerabilities

    Details: Jeriko One discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain Edge Side Includes (ESI) responses. A malicious remote server could cause Squid to crash, possibly poison the cache, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-12519, CVE-2019-12521) It was discovered that Squid incorrectly handled the hostname parameter to cachemgr.cgi when certain browsers are used. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject HTML or invalid characters in the hostname parameter. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 19.10. (CVE-2019-18860) Clément Berthaux and Florian Guilbert discovered that Squid incorrectly handled Digest Authentication nonce values. A remote attacker could use this issue to replay nonce values, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-11945)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4356-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-12519, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-12521, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-18860, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-11945

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: squid3

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.5.12-1ubuntu7.11

    Affected versions

    3.3.8-1ubuntu16
    3.3.8-1ubuntu17

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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