CVE-2005-0174

Description

Squid 2.5 up to 2.5.STABLE7 allows remote attackers to poison the cache or conduct certain attacks via headers that do not follow the HTTP specification, including (1) multiple Content-Length headers, (2) carriage return (CR) characters that are not part of a CRLF pair, and (3) header names containing whitespace characters.

5.0

CVSS

Severity: Medium

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 85.95% Top 5%

Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory fedoranews.org Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory com.br Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory novell.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory squid-cache.org

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-May/msg00025.html	vendor advisory
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/#squid-2.5.STABLE7-header_parsing	vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12412	vdb entry
http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml	vendor advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/768702	third party advisory us government resource
http://www3.br.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2005_4.txt
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-061.html	patch vendor advisory
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000931	vendor advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10656	vdb entry signature
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:034	vendor advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110780531820947&w=2	mailing list
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_06_squid.html	vendor advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-060.html	patch vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2005-0174?: CVE-2005-0174 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2005-0174?: To fix CVE-2005-0174, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2005-0174 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2005-0174 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~86% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.