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CVE-2009-0478

63
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-0478 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Squid proxy versions 2.7 through 2.7.STABLE5, 3.0 through 3.0.STABLE12, and 3.1 through 3.1.0.4. Remote attackers can trigger an assertion failure in HttpMsg.c and HttpStatusLine.c by sending an HTTP request with an invalid version number. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with a network-based attack vector, low complexity, and potential for partial availability impact. While not listed on the KEV catalog or Hot List, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.7.stable1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid:squid:2.7.stable1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.7.stable2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid:squid:2.7.stable2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.7.stable3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid:squid:2.7.stable3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.7.stable4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid:squid:2.7.stable4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.7.stable5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid:squid:2.7.stable5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
71.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-8021 · Feb 9, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.7199 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-0478Moderate

Squid denial of service flaw

Feb 2, 2009

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00000.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/33731
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34467
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200903-38.xml
exploit-db.com / exploits/8021
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / archive/1/500653/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/33604
ExploitPatch
securitytracker.com / id
squid-cache.org / Advisories/SQUID-2009_1.txt
Vendor Advisory
squid-cache.org / Versions/v2/2.7/changesets/12432.patch
Vendor Advisory