RHSA-2020:3623 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: squid:4 security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · September 3, 2020
Updated · November 22, 2025
Topic
An update for the squid:4 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, Gopher, and HTTP data objects.
Security Fix(es):
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squid: HTTP Request Smuggling could result in cache poisoning (CVE-2020-15810)
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squid: HTTP Request Splitting could result in cache poisoning (CVE-2020-15811)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.