CVE-2020-14058

squid: DoS in TLS handshake

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.7

CVSS 3.1

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Published · June 19, 2020

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in squid. A denial-of-service attack while processing TLS certificates is possible due to use of a potentially dangerous function in Squid and the default certificate validation helper. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.7
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-676 · Use of Potentially Dangerous Function