NetSight
high8.6

CVE-2016-4553

client_side.cc in Squid before 3.5.18 and 4.x before 4.0.10 does not properly ignore the Host header when absolute-URI is provided, which allows remote attacke…

Impact

client_side.cc in Squid before 3.5.18 and 4.x before 4.0.10 does not properly ignore the Host header when absolute-URI is provided, which allows remote attackers to conduct cache-poisoning attacks via an HTTP request.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 12.04, 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
Squid-CacheSquid
through 3.5.17
Versions 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5
OracleLinux
Version 7

Weakness classification

References