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CVE-2002-0068
Squid 2.4 STABLE3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (core dump) and possibly execute arbitrary code with an…
High7.5EPSS 9.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Squid 2.4 STABLE3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (core dump) and possibly execute arbitrary code with an ftp:// URL with a larger number of special characters, which exceed the buffer when Squid URL-escapes the characters.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Published
- 21 years later
· 21 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 9.4% · top 4.5% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (13)
- http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.4/bugs/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- CLA-2002:464 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVAx_transferred
- SuSE-SA:2002:008 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- MDKSA-2002:016 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- 20020222 Squid buffer overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20020222 TSLSA-2002-0031 - squid (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- CSSA-2002-SCO.7 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CALDERAx_transferred
- 20020221 Squid HTTP Proxy Security Update Advisory 2002:1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- RHSA-2002:029 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- CSSA-2002-010.0 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CALDERAx_transferred
- 5378 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- squid-ftpbuildtitleurl-bo(8258) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 4148 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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