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CVE-2020-15811 Detail

Description

An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.13 and 5.x before 5.0.4. Due to incorrect data validation, HTTP Request Splitting attacks may succeed against HTTP and HTTPS traffic. This leads to cache poisoning. This allows any client, including browser scripts, to bypass local security and poison the browser cache and any downstream caches with content from an arbitrary source. Squid uses a string search instead of parsing the Transfer-Encoding header to find chunked encoding. This allows an attacker to hide a second request inside Transfer-Encoding: it is interpreted by Squid as chunked and split out into a second request delivered upstream. Squid will then deliver two distinct responses to the client, corrupting any downstream caches.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00012.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00017.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-c7p8-xqhm-49wv Patch 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00005.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BE6FKUN7IGTIR2MEEMWYDT7N5EJJLZI2/ Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BMTFLVB7GLRF2CKGFPZ4G4R5DIIPHWI3/ Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HJJDI7JQFGQLVNCKMVY64LAFMKERAOK7/ Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210219-0007/ Third Party Advisory 
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210226-0006/ Third Party Advisory 
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210226-0007/ Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4477-1/ Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4551-1/ Third Party Advisory 
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4751 Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-697 Incorrect Comparison cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2020-15811
NVD Published Date:
09/02/2020
NVD Last Modified:
02/01/2024
Source:
MITRE