CVE-2016-4051

squid: buffer overflow in cachemgr.cgi

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.1

CVSS 2.0

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Published · April 20, 2016

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Squid cachemgr.cgi utility processed remotely relayed Squid input. When the CGI interface utility is used, a remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow