CVE-2024-25617
CVSS 3.1 Score 5.3 of 10 (medium)
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Summary
CVE-2024-25617 is a Denial of Service vulnerability affecting Squid, an open-source web caching proxy. The issue, known as a Collapse of Data into Unsafe Value bug, can be exploited by remote clients or servers sending oversized headers in HTTP messages. In earlier versions of Squid, this vulnerability can lead to a Denial of Service attack due to insufficient size limits for request and reply headers. While Squid version 6.5 and later have safer defaults, the software does not prevent users from setting these parameters to unsafe values, leading to a critical warning in the cache.log file. No known workarounds exist, and users are advised to upgrade to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability.
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