HIGH Published November 3, 2023

CVE-2023-5824

A flaw was found in Squid. The limits applied for validation of HTTP response headers are applied before caching. However, Squid may grow a cached HTTP response header beyond the configured maximum size, causing a stall or crash of the worker process when a large header is retrieved from the disk cache, resulting in a denial of service.

CVSS base score
7.5 (v3.1)
Severity
HIGH
Attack vector
Network
Weakness
CWE-755
Last modified
November 4, 2026
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

squid-cache squid redhat enterprise linux

References

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