CVE-2016-2571

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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

http.cc in Squid 3.x before 3.5.15 and 4.x before 4.0.7 proceeds with the storage of certain data after a response-parsing failure, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a malformed response.

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 (9.3%)

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