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CVE-2014-7142

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-7142 describes a vulnerability in the pinger component of Squid 3.x before version 3.4.8, affecting various Canonical, Oracle, and Squid Cache products. This flaw allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service by sending specially crafted ICMP or ICMP6 packets. With a CVSS score of 6.4, it is a medium-severity vulnerability that can be exploited over the network with low complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
11.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:3.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.4MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
24.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2493 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 23,703 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 Patches (1)

ubuntuvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-7142Low

squid: pinger incorrect input validation flaw in handling of ICMP replies (SQUID-2014:4)

Sep 16, 2014

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00010.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00040.html
bugzilla.novell.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q3/539
Third Party Advisory
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q3/613
Third Party Advisory
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q3/626
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/60242
Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-2422-1
Vendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/70022
squid-cache.org / Advisories/SQUID-2014_4.txt
Vendor Advisory