CVE-2005-0446 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Squid 2.5.STABLE8 and earlier, where specially crafted DNS responses for FQDNs or IP addresses can trigger an assertion failure and crash the proxy server. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is moderately severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, leading to a denial of service. Despite its age and high FAUCET Risk Score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.0.patch1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:squid:squid:2.0.patch1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.patch2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:squid:squid:2.0.patch2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.pre1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:squid:squid:2.0.pre1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.releaseCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:squid:squid:2.0.release:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0_patch2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:squid:squid:2.0_patch2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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