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CVE-2024-25617

72
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-25617 is a Denial of Service vulnerability affecting Squid caching proxy versions prior to 6.5, as well as NetApp BlueXP and NetApp Squid products. It stems from a collapse of data into an unsafe value during HTTP header parsing, allowing remote clients or servers to trigger a DoS by sending oversized headers. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high impact on availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.0, < 6.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netapp:bluexp:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
88.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.8886 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (14)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: squid-7:3.5.20-17.el7_9.10
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: squid:4-8090020240314114525.a75119d5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: squid:4-8020020240313150557.4cda2c84
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update ServiceFixed in: squid:4-8020020240313150557.4cda2c84
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: squid:4-8020020240313150557.4cda2c84
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update SupportFixed in: squid:4-8040020240312224211.522a0ee4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update ServiceFixed in: squid:4-8040020240312224211.522a0ee4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: squid:4-8040020240312224211.522a0ee4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update SupportFixed in: squid:4-8060020240227214219.ad008a3a
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update SupportFixed in: squid:4-8080020240227184832.63b34585
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: squid-7:5.5-6.el9_3.8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update SupportFixed in: squid-7:5.2-1.el9_0.6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: squid-7:5.5-5.el9_2.5
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2024-25617Important

squid: denial of service in HTTP header parser

Feb 14, 2024

References

github.com / squid-cache/squid/commit/72a3bbd5e431597c3fdb56d752bc56b010ba3817
PatchVendor Advisory
github.com / squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-h5x6-w8mv-xfpr
MitigationThird Party AdvisoryVendor Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20240322-0006
PatchThird Party AdvisoryVendor Advisory