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CVE-2013-1839

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-1839 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Squid 3.2.x before 3.2.9 and 3.3.x before 3.3.3. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw by sending a specially crafted Accept-Language header containing a comma, leading to an infinite loop and high CPU consumption on the Squid proxy server. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a critical impact on availability with low attack complexity and no authentication required. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.2.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
18.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1831 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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, 0.1 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-1839Moderate

Squid: strHdrAcptLangGetItem() infinite CPU loop

Mar 5, 2013

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2013-03/0025.html
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2013-03/0069.html
secunia.com / advisories/52588
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2013/03/11/7
securityfocus.com / bid/58316
squid-cache.org / Advisories/SQUID-2013_1.txt