CVE-2019-12523

Publication date 26 November 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.9. When handling a URN request, a corresponding HTTP request is made. This HTTP request doesn't go through the access checks that incoming HTTP requests go through. This causes all access checks to be bypassed and allows access to restricted HTTP servers, e.g., an attacker can connect to HTTP servers that only listen on localhost.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
squid	21.04 hirsute	Fixed 4.9-2ubuntu1
	20.10 groovy	Fixed 4.9-2ubuntu1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 4.9-2ubuntu1
	19.10 eoan	Fixed 4.8-1ubuntu2.1
	19.04 disco	Fixed 4.4-1ubuntu2.3
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
squid3	21.04 hirsute	Not in release
	20.10 groovy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	19.10 eoan	Not in release
	19.04 disco	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 3.5.27-1ubuntu1.7
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 3.5.12-1ubuntu7.12
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

This was fixed in 4.x by rewriting the URI parser to use SBuf. fixed in Debian's 3.5.23-5+deb9u2

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
squid	Upstream: http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-fbbdf75efd7a5cc244b4886a9d42ea458c5a3a73.patch

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.1 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N