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CVE-2013-4123

66
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4123 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Squid versions 3.2.x before 3.2.13 and 3.3.x before 3.3.8, affecting products like openSUSE Squid. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the Squid proxy server by sending a specially crafted HTTP Host header containing an invalid port number. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to a partial denial of service. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, a proof-of-concept exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.3.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.3.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
80.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-26886 · Jul 16, 2013
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.8045 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-4123Moderate

squid: Denial of service when processing specially-crafted HTTP requests (SQUID-2013:3)

Jul 13, 2013

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-09/msg00024.html
secunia.com / advisories/54142
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/54834
squid-cache.org / Advisories/SQUID-2013_3.txt
Vendor Advisory
squid-cache.org / Versions/v3/3.2/changesets/squid-3.2-11826.patch
Patch
squid-cache.org / Versions/v3/3.3/changesets/squid-3.3-12591.patch