High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.10. Due to incorrect input validation, it can interpret crafted HTTP requests in unexpected ways to access server resources prohibited by earlier security filters.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-8449
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:05 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.10. Due to incorrect input validation, it can interpret crafted HTTP requests in unexpected ways to access server resources prohibited by earlier security filters.
osv:CVE-2020-8449
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-8449",
"method": "structured",
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"severity": "high",
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"type": "GIT",
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"SQUID_4_0_17",
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"SQUID_3_0_PRE7",
"SQUID_3_0_PRE6",
"SQUID_3_0_PRE5",
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"SQUID_3_0_PRE3",
"SQUID_3_0_PRE2",
"SQUID_3_0_PRE1",
"HISTORIC_RELEASES"
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:48.476225320Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TSU6SPANL27AGK5PCGBJOKG4LUWA555J/",
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00009.html",
"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-34",
"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210304-0002/",
"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4289-1/",
"https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4682"
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 436774,
"published_at": "2020-02-04T20:15:14.697+00:00"
}