CVE-2019-12529

MEDIUM
5.9
CVSS Score
Published: July 11, 2019 at 06:33 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:14 AM UTC
5 products affected across 5 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraUbuntu Linux

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Severity
MEDIUM5.9
Exploit prediction
EPSS 8%

Description

An issue was discovered in Squid 2.x through 2.7.STABLE9, 3.x through 3.5.28, and 4.x through 4.7. When Squid is configured to use Basic Authentication, the Proxy-Authorization header is parsed via uudecode. uudecode determines how many bytes will be decoded by iterating over the input and checking its table. The length is then used to start decoding the string. There are no checks to ensure that the length it calculates isn't greater than the input buffer. This leads to adjacent memory being decoded as well. An attacker would not be able to retrieve the decoded data unless the Squid maintainer had configured the display of usernames on error pages.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

2.0 ≤ v < 2.73.0 ≤ v ≤ 3.5.284.0 ≤ v ≤ 4.72.7 stable12.7 stable22.7 stable32.7 stable42.7 stable52.7 stable62.7 stable72.7 stable82.7 stable9
Affected range stops below 2.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

References (12)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00053.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00056.html
x_refsource_MISCx_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/changesets/
x_refsource_MISCx_refsource_CONFIRMPatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commits/v4
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00018.html
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00009.html

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-125

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