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CVE-2021-41611

squid: improper certificate validation

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

8.1

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 · 8.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CWE-295 · Improper Certificate Validation