CVE-2019-18678

Publication date 26 November 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

An 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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
squid	21.04 hirsute	Fixed 4.9-2ubuntu1
	20.10 groovy	Fixed 4.9-2ubuntu1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 4.9-2ubuntu1
	19.10 eoan	Fixed 4.8-1ubuntu2.1
	19.04 disco	Fixed 4.4-1ubuntu2.3
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
squid3	21.04 hirsute	Not in release
	20.10 groovy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	19.10 eoan	Not in release
	19.04 disco	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 3.5.27-1ubuntu1.4
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 3.5.12-1ubuntu7.9
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
squid	Upstream: http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-671ba97abe929156dc4c717ee52ad22fba0f7443.patch

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4213-1
Squid vulnerabilities
4 December 2019