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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-1999-0710 in the critical feed json

The Squid package in Red Hat Linux 5.2 and 6.0, and other distributions, installs cachemgr.cgi in a public web directory, which allows remo…

published 1999-07-25 27 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-1999-0691

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
11.6%
EPSS 11.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The Squid package in Red Hat Linux 5.2 and 6.0, and other distributions, installs cachemgr.cgi in a public web directory, which allows remote attackers to use it as an intermediary to connect to other systems.

Patch / fix

  • squid Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.5.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-1999-0710

  • squid RHEL 3 7:2.5.STABLE3-6.3E.13
  • squid RHEL 4 7:2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.9

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:415

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-1999-0710 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 squid 2.5.STABLE3-6.3E.13 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 squid 2.5.STABLE3-6.3E.13 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 squid 2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 squid 2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:415
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:489
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 squid 2.5.STABLE3-6.3E.13 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 squid 2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 squid 2.5.STABLE3-6.3E.13 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 squid 2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:415
  • Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:489

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-20465)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

11.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-20465 Squid Web Proxy 2.2 - 'cachemgr.cgi' Unauthorized Connection remote, 1999-07-23

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.