CVE-2016-4553

squid: Cache poisoning issue in HTTP Request handling

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · May 6, 2016

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

An input validation flaw was found in the way Squid handled intercepted HTTP Request messages. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass the protection against issues related to CVE-2009-0801, and perform cache poisoning attacks on Squid.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation