High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Squid 5.0.6 through 5.1.x before 5.2. When validating an origin server or peer certificate, Squid may incorrectly classify certain certificates as trusted. This problem allows a remote server to obtain security trust well improperly. This indication of trust may be passed along to clients, allowing access to unsafe or hijacked services.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-41611
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:21 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Squid 5.0.6 through 5.1.x before 5.2. When validating an origin server or peer certificate, Squid may incorrectly classify certain certificates as trusted. This problem allows a remote server to obtain security trust well improperly. This indication of trust may be passed along to clients, allowing access to unsafe or hijacked services.
osv:CVE-2021-41611
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-41611",
"method": "structured",
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"title": "CVE-2021-41611",
"summary": "An issue was discovered in Squid 5.0.6 through 5.1.x before 5.2. When validating an origin server or peer certificate, Squid may incorrectly classify certain certificates as trusted. This problem allows a remote server to obtain security trust well improperly. This indication of trust may be passed along to clients, allowing access to unsafe or hijacked services.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-41611",
"products": [],
"severity": "high",
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"aliases": [
"CVE-2021-41611",
"GHSA-47m4-g3mv-9q5r"
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"metrics": [
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"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
}
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"affected": [
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"type": "GIT",
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}
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},
{
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"versions": [
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"SQUID_5_0_7",
"SQUID_5_0_6"
],
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],
"modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:01.352612338Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CWQ2WKDWTSO47S3F6XJJ6HGG2ULWEAE4/",
"https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-47m4-g3mv-9q5r"
],
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{
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],
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},
"related_cves": [
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"security_relevant": true,
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 384818,
"published_at": "2021-10-18T09:15:08.823+00:00"
}