CVE-2024-37894 (GCVE-0-2024-37894)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-25 19:39 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:38
VLAI
Title
Squid vulnerable to heap corruption in ESI assign
Summary
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to an Out-of-bounds Write error when assigning ESI variables, Squid is susceptible to a Memory Corruption error. This error can lead to a Denial of Service attack.
Severity
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-06-26 14:07 UTC
CWE
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7712 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
squid-cache squid Affected: >= 3.0, <= 3.5.28
Affected: >= 4.0, <= 4.16
Affected: >= 5.0, <= 5.9
Affected: >= 6.0, <= 6.9
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