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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: ALPINE-CVE-2020-15810

An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.13 and 5.x before 5.0.4. Due to incorrect data validation, HTTP Request Smuggling attacks may succeed against HTTP and HTTPS traffic. This leads to cache poisoning. This allows any client, including browser scripts, to bypass local security and poison the proxy cache and any downstream caches with content from an arbitrary source. When configured for relaxed header parsing (the default), Squid relays headers containing whitespace characters to upstream servers. When this occurs as a prefix to a Content-Length header, the frame length specified will be ignored by Squid (allowing for a conflicting length to be used from another Content-Length header) but relayed upstream.

Products
squid
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
4.13-r0, 4.13.0-r0
CVEs
CVE-2020-15810
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 12:04 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

ALPINE-CVE-2020-15810

core-osv · Original source

Published 2 Sept 2020, 17:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.13 and 5.x before 5.0.4. Due to incorrect data validation, HTTP Request Smuggling attacks may succeed against HTTP and HTTPS traffic. This leads to cache poisoning. This allows any client, including browser scripts, to bypass local security and poison the proxy cache and any downstream caches with content from an arbitrary source. When configured for relaxed header parsing (the default), Squid relays headers containing whitespace characters to upstream servers. When this occurs as a prefix to a Content-Length header, the frame length specified will be ignored by Squid (allowing for a conflicting length to be used from another Content-Length header) but relayed upstream.

osv:ALPINE-CVE-2020-15810

squid

Fixed versions: 4.13-r0

squid

Fixed versions: 4.13-r0

squid

Fixed versions: 4.13-r0

squid

Fixed versions: 4.13.0-r0

squid

Fixed versions: 4.13.0-r0

squid

Fixed versions: 4.13.0-r0

squid

Fixed versions: 4.13.0-r0

squid

Fixed versions: 4.13.0-r0

squid

Fixed versions: 4.13.0-r0

squid

Fixed versions: 4.13.0-r0

squid

Fixed versions: 4.13.0-r0

squid

Fixed versions: 4.13.0-r0

squid

Fixed versions: 4.13.0-r0

squid

Fixed versions: 4.13.0-r0

squid

Fixed versions: 4.13.0-r0

squid

Fixed versions: 4.13-r0

Complete source record
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