CVE-2021-41611
squid: improper certificate validation
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · September 7, 2021
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
The squid proxy package may incorrectly classify certain certificates as trusted. This can allow traffic to obtain security trust when the trust is not valid. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and integrity.
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
The only mitigation is complete denial to TLS and HTTPS servers publishing affected certificate chains. The set of affected servers varies over time.
acl vulnerableDomains dstdomain .example.net http_access deny vulnerableDomains
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE-295 · Improper Certificate Validation