CVE-2019-18860 (GCVE-0-2019-18860)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-03-20 20:32 – Updated: 2025-11-05 17:04
VLAI
Summary
Squid before 4.9, when certain web browsers are used, mishandles HTML in the host (aka hostname) parameter to cachemgr.cgi.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/pull/504 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/pull/505 x_refsource_MISC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4356-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4732 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
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