CVE-2020-8450 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in Squid versions prior to 4.10, specifically impacting instances configured as a reverse proxy, and affecting products from Canonical, Debian, FedoraProject, openSUSE, and squid-cache. With a CVSS score of 7.3 (HIGH), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity, potentially leading to limited impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the FAUCET Risk Score is high at 96/100, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 4.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
19.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
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