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Unscored USN-4356-1 4 CVEs

squid, squid3 vulnerabilities

Published May 13, 2020 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Summary

Jeriko One discovered that Squid incorrectly handled certain Edge Side
Includes (ESI) responses. A malicious remote server could cause Squid to
crash, possibly poison the cache, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2019-12519, CVE-2019-12521)

It was discovered that Squid incorrectly handled the hostname parameter to
cachemgr.cgi when certain browsers are used. A remote attacker could
possibly use this issue to inject HTML or invalid characters in the
hostname parameter. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04
LTS, and Ubuntu 19.10. (CVE-2019-18860)

Clément Berthaux and Florian Guilbert discovered that Squid incorrectly
handled Digest Authentication nonce values. A remote attacker could
use this issue to replay nonce values, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2020-11945)

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS squid3 3.5.12-1ubuntu7.11
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS squid3 3.5.27-1ubuntu1.6
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS squid 4.10-1ubuntu1.1

Vulnerabilities 4

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-12519
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-12521
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-18860
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-11945