Medium
Security advisory
Squid before 4.9, when certain web browsers are used, mishandles HTML in the host (aka hostname) parameter to cachemgr.cgi.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2019-18860
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:46 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Squid before 4.9, when certain web browsers are used, mishandles HTML in the host (aka hostname) parameter to cachemgr.cgi.
osv:CVE-2019-18860
Complete source record
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