CVE-2024-45802 HIGH

CVE-2024-45802: Squid Denial of Service

Vendor Squid-Cache
Product squid
Weakness CWE-20 · Input validation
Published October 28, 2024
Last update November 3, 2025
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CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Squid is an open source caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to Input Validation, Premature Release of Resource During Expected Lifetime, and Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime bugs, Squid is vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks by a trusted server against all clients using the proxy. This bug is fixed in the default build configuration of Squid version 6.10.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 28, 2024 CVE published
November 3, 2025 Record updated