CVE-2013-4123

medium
Published 2013-09-16 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

client_side_request.cc in Squid 3.2.x before 3.2.13 and 3.3.x before 3.3.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted port number in a HTTP Host header.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-26886 dos linux verified
kingcope ยท 2013-07-16

Squid 3.3.5 - Denial of Service (PoC)

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse suse12.3affected
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
squid-cachesquid3.3.0
squid-cachesquid3.3.0.2
squid-cachesquid3.3.0.3
squid-cachesquid3.3.1
squid-cachesquid3.3.2
squid-cachesquid3.3.3
squid-cachesquid3.3.4
squid-cachesquid3.3.5
squid-cachesquid3.3.6
squid-cachesquid3.3.7
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.1
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.2
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.3
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.4
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.5
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.6
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.7
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.8
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.9
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.10
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.11
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.12
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.13
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.14
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.15
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.16
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.17
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.18
squid-cachesquid3.2.0.19
squid-cachesquid3.2.1
squid-cachesquid3.2.2
squid-cachesquid3.2.3
squid-cachesquid3.2.4
squid-cachesquid3.2.5
squid-cachesquid3.2.6
squid-cachesquid3.2.7
squid-cachesquid3.2.8
squid-cachesquid3.2.9
squid-cachesquid3.2.10
squid-cachesquid3.2.11
squid-cachesquid3.2.12

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.