Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Nov 26, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-18678
CVE-2019-18678
Description
An issue was discovered in Squid 3.x and 4.x through 4.8. It allows attackers to smuggle HTTP requests through frontend software to a Squid instance that splits the HTTP Request pipeline differently. The resulting Response messages corrupt caches (between a client and Squid) with attacker-controlled content at arbitrary URLs. Effects are isolated to software between the attacker client and Squid. There are no effects on Squid itself, nor on any upstream servers. The issue is related to a request header containing whitespace between a header name and a colon.
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Affected products
34- Squid/Squiddescription
- osv-coords24 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/squid&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/almalinux/libecappkg:rpm/almalinux/libecap-develpkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=HPE%20Helion%20OpenStack%208pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%207pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%208pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%205pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%208pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/squid&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/squid3&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Point%20of%20Sale%2011%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/squid3&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/opensuse/squid&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/squid&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.0
< 4.16-1.5+ 23 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.16-1.5
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.1-2.module_el8.6.0+2741+01592ae8
- (no CPE)range: < 1.0.1-2.module_el8.6.0+2741+01592ae8
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9-4.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9-4.3.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9-5.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9-5.11.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.21-26.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.23-8.16.37.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.23-8.16.37.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9-lp151.2.7.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9-lp150.13.1
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*+ 3 more
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
11- github.com/squid-cache/squid/pull/445nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2019_10.txtnvdThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00011.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/4213-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-671ba97abe929156dc4c717ee52ad22fba0f7443.patchnvdRelease Notes
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00009.htmlnvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MTM74TU2BSLT5B3H4F3UDW53672NVLMC/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UEMOYTMCCFWK5NOXSXEIH5D2VGWVXR67/nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-34nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4682nvd
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