CVE-2016-2570

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CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

EPSS

9%p95

Published

Feb 27, 2016 (Feb 27, 2016)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The Edge Side Includes (ESI) parser in Squid 3.x before 3.5.15 and 4.x before 4.0.7 does not check buffer limits during XML parsing, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a crafted XML document, related to esi/CustomParser.cc and esi/CustomParser.h.

Vendors: squid-cache
Products: squid
Weakness: CWE-20
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (9.0%)

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