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CVE-2019-18679

47
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-18679 is an information disclosure vulnerability affecting Squid versions 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x through 4.8, including products from Canonical, Debian, and Fedora. This flaw stems from incorrect data management during HTTP Digest Authentication, where nonce tokens expose raw pointer values from heap memory. Rated 7.5 HIGH on CVSS, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers over the network to reduce Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) protections, potentially aiding in subsequent remote code execution attempts. There is currently 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
>= 2.0, <= 2.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.0, <= 3.5.28CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.0, <= 4.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:2.7:stable2:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:2.7:stable3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
40.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.4098 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: squid:4-8030020200828070549.30b713e6
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: squid

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-18679Moderate

squid: Information Disclosure issue in HTTP Digest Authentication

Nov 5, 2019

References

bugzilla.suse.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / squid-cache/squid/pull/491
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00011.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00009.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MTM74TU2BSLT5B3H4F3UDW53672NVLMC
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UEMOYTMCCFWK5NOXSXEIH5D2VGWVXR67
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202003-34
usn.ubuntu.com / 4213-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4682
squid-cache.org / Advisories/SQUID-2019_11.txt
Third Party Advisory
squid-cache.org / Versions/v4/changesets/squid-4-671ba97abe929156dc4c717ee52ad22fba0f7443.patch
Release Notes