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High ALSA-2025:21002 1 CVE

Important: squid security update

Published Nov 11, 2025 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, and HTTP data objects.

Security Fix(es):

* squid-cache: Squid vulnerable to information disclosure via authentication credential leakage in error handling (CVE-2025-62168)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 10 squid 7:6.10-6.el10_1.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Critical 10.0
    CVE-2025-62168 Public exploit Scanner template EPSS 62%

    Squid vulnerable to information disclosure via authentication credential leakage in error handling

    Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. In Squid versions prior to 7.2, a failure to redact HTTP authentication credentials in error handling allows information disclosure. The vulnerability allows a script to bypass browser security protections and learn the c…

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62168
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2404736
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/10/ALSA-2025-21002.html