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Critical USN-4895-1 2 CVEs

squid, squid3 vulnerabilities

Published Mar 29, 2021 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Summary

Alex Rousskov and Amit Klein discovered that Squid incorrectly handled
certain Content-Length headers. A remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to perform an HTTP request smuggling attack, resulting in cache
poisoning. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-15049)

Jianjun Chen discovered that Squid incorrectly validated certain input. A
remote attacker could use this issue to perform HTTP Request Smuggling and
possibly access services forbidden by the security controls.
(CVE-2020-25097)

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS squid3 3.5.12-1ubuntu7.16
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS squid3 3.5.27-1ubuntu1.10
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS squid 4.10-1ubuntu1.3

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-15049
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-25097