CVE-2023-49288

highpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.048 · 92 %ileDEEURUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

4.78% (92nd) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

18 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Affected versions of squid are subject to a a Use-After-Free bug which can lead to a Denial of Service attack via collapsed forwarding. All versions of Squid from 3.5 up to and including 5.9 configured with "collapsed_forwarding on" are vulnerable. Configurations with "collapsed_forwarding off" or without a "collapsed_forwarding" directive are not vulnerable. This bug is fixed by Squid version 6.0.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should remove all collapsed_forwarding lines from their squid.conf.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.6

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.9–8.6

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.17.5highAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.18.6highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.18.6highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 3.9 · impact 4

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: partialcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-119USCWE-416USCWE-416US

affected products (18)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Amazon Linux 2all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:amazon:linux_2:-
Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
Fedora Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:-
IBM Security Guardium 11.4all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:security_guardium:11.4
IBM Security Guardium 11.5all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:security_guardium:11.5
Open Source CentOSall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:centos:centos:-
Oracle Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:oracle:linux:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
Open Source Squid< 6.0.1cert_bundDE
squid-cache squid3.5, → 6.0.1enisa_euvdEU
Red Hat Inc. Red Hat Enterprise Linux≤ 8fstec_bduRU
Red Hat Inc. Red Hat Enterprise Linux≤ 9fstec_bduRU
Squid Software Foundation Squid3.5 → 5.9fstec_bduRU
АО «ИВК» Альт 8 СПall versionsfstec_bduRU
АО «НТЦ ИТ РОСА» РОСА ХРОМ≤ 12.4fstec_bduRU
squid-cache squid3.5 → 5.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-3049Squid: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Denial of ServiceDeutsch2023-12-03csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Squid ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.
WID-SEC-W-2024-1248Xerox FreeFlow Print Server: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2024-05-28csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Xerox FreeFlow Print Server ausnutzen, um die Vertraulichkeit, Verfügbarkeit und Integrität des Systems zu gefährden

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2023-12-04modified 2026-06-17

references (12)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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