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CVE-2014-7141

62
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-7141 describes an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the pinger component of Squid 3.x before version 3.4.8. This flaw allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (crash) by sending specially crafted ICMP or ICMP6 packets. With a CVSS score of 6.4, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, impacting confidentiality and availability. Despite its high EPSS and FAUCET Risk Score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.4MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
76.06%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.7606 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

ubuntupatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-7141Low

squid: pinger OOB array index flaw in handling of ICMP replies (SQUID-2014:4)

Sep 9, 2014

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00040.html
bugzilla.novell.com / show_bug.cgi
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q3/539
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q3/612
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q3/626
secunia.com / advisories/60242
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-2422-1
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/69688
squid-cache.org / Advisories/SQUID-2014_4.txt
Vendor Advisory