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high 7.3

CVE-2020-8450 in the critical feed json

An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.10.

published 2020-02-04 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-29316

cvss
7.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
71.8%
EPSS 71.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.4%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.10. Due to incorrect buffer management, a remote client can cause a buffer overflow in a Squid instance acting as a reverse proxy.

Patch / fix

  • squid-cache squid 4.10
  • squid Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.10-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8450

  • squid Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 4.9-2ubuntu4
  • squid3 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 3.5.12-1ubuntu7.10
  • squid3 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 3.5.27-1ubuntu1.5

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-8450

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • squid RHEL 7 7:3.5.20-17.el7_9.4
  • squid-sysvinit RHEL 7 7:3.5.20-17.el7_9.4
  • squid-migration-script RHEL 7 7:3.5.20-17.el7_9.4
  • squid RHEL 8 7:4.11-3.module+el8.3.0+7851+7808b5f9
  • libecap RHEL 8 1.0.1-2.module+el8.1.0+4044+36416a77

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:4082RHSA-2020:4743

  • squid3 SLES 11 SP4-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 3.1.23-8.16.37.12.1
  • squid SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2 +10 more 3.5.21-26.20.1
  • squid SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP1 4.10-5.14.1
  • squid SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5 4.10-4.6.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:14460-1SUSE-SU-2020:0661-1SUSE-SU-2020:0493-1SUSE-SU-2020:0487-1

  • squid openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.10-lp151.2.14.1
  • squid openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.10-lp151.2.11.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2020:0606-1openSUSE-SU-2020:0307-1

  • libecap AlmaLinux 8 1.0.1-2.module_el8.6.0+2741+01592ae8

almalinux advisories ALSA-2020:4743

  • libecap Rocky Linux 8 1.0.1-2.module+el8.4.0+404+316a0dc5

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2020:4743

  • squid Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +13 more 4.10-r0
  • squid Alpine 3.8 3.5.27-r4

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2020-8450

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-8450 updated cvss 5.9

squid: Buffer overflow in reverse-proxy configurations

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 squid, squid34
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) squid 4.11-3.module+el8.3.0+7851+7808b5f9, libecap 1.0.1-2.module+el8.1.0+4044+36416a77
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:4743
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) squid 3.5.20-17.el7_9.4, squid-migration-script 3.5.20-17.el7_9.4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) squid-sysvinit 3.5.20-17.el7_9.4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) squid 3.5.20-17.el7_9.4, squid-migration-script 3.5.20-17.el7_9.4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) squid-sysvinit 3.5.20-17.el7_9.4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:4082
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 squid
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

71.79% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-131 Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

Sources

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