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CVE-2010-3072

49
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-3072 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Squid 3.x before 3.1.8 and 3.2.x before 3.2.0.2, where crafted requests can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash due to flaws in string-comparison functions. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, as it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to a partial availability impact. Despite its potential to disrupt service, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.stable1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.0.stable1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.stable2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.0.stable2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.stable3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.0.stable3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.stable4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.0.stable4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
64.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6424 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: squid-7:3.1.10-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-3072Low

Squid: Denial of service due internal error in string handling (SQUID-2010:3)

Sep 3, 2010

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/047787.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-September/047820.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/41298
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/41477
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/41534
debian.org / security/2010/dsa-2111
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/09/05/2
Patch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/09/07/7
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/42982
squid-cache.org / Advisories/SQUID-2010_3.txt
Vendor Advisory
squid-cache.org / Versions/v3/3.0/changesets/squid-3.0-9189.patch
Patch
squid-cache.org / Versions/v3/3.1/changesets/squid-3.1-10090.patch
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/2433