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CVE-2007-0248

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-0248 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Squid versions prior to 2.6.STABLE7, specifically within the aclMatchExternal function. An attacker can trigger an infinite loop by overloading the external_acl queue, causing the Squid proxy server to crash. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is rated as medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, leading to partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6.stable6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid:squid:2.6.stable6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
6.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0669 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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-2007-0248

CVE-2007-0248

References

secunia.com / advisories/23767
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/23805
secunia.com / advisories/23889
secunia.com / advisories/23921
secunia.com / advisories/23946
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/31525
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-22.xml
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2007_12_squid.html
securityfocus.com / bid/22203
squid-cache.org / bugs/show_bug.cgi
squid-cache.org / Versions/v2/2.6/squid-2.6.STABLE7-RELEASENOTES.html
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-414-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/0199