Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-28652 - Memory Leak vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 4.9 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
HIGH
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH

Summary

An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.15 and 5.x before 5.0.6. Due to incorrect parser validation, it allows a Denial of Service attack against the Cache Manager API. This allows a trusted client to trigger memory leaks that. over time, lead to a Denial of Service via an unspecified short query string. This attack is limited to clients with Cache Manager API access privilege.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Squid-Cache
256
OS
Debian
2
OS
Fedoraproject
2