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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11945

An issue was discovered in Squid before 5.0.2. A remote attacker can replay a sniffed Digest Authentication nonce to gain access to resources that are otherwise forbidden. This occurs because the attacker can overflow the nonce reference counter (a short integer). Remote code execution may occur if the pooled token credentials are freed (instead of replayed as valid credentials).

Products
squid
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
4.11-1
CVEs
CVE-2020-11945
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 13:00 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11945

core-osv · Original source

Published 23 Apr 2020, 15:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in Squid before 5.0.2. A remote attacker can replay a sniffed Digest Authentication nonce to gain access to resources that are otherwise forbidden. This occurs because the attacker can overflow the nonce reference counter (a short integer). Remote code execution may occur if the pooled token credentials are freed (instead of replayed as valid credentials).

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-11945

squid

Fixed versions: 4.11-1

squid

Fixed versions: 4.11-1

squid

Fixed versions: 4.11-1

Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "An issue was discovered in Squid before 5.0.2. A remote attacker can replay a sniffed Digest Authentication nonce to gain access to resources that are otherwise forbidden. This occurs because the attacker can overflow the nonce reference counter (a short integer). Remote code execution may occur if the pooled token credentials are freed (instead of replayed as valid credentials).",
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      "modified": "2026-10-26T12:01:25.128674999Z",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 451651,
  "published_at": "2020-04-23T15:15:14.233+00:00"
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