CVE-2025-54574 (GCVE-0-2025-54574)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-01 18:02
Modified
2025-08-01 18:43
Severity ?
9.3 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Summary
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. In versions 6.3 and below, Squid is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow and possible remote code execution attack when processing URN due to incorrect buffer management. This has been fixed in version 6.4. To work around this issue, disable URN access permissions.
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