CVE-2005-0174

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 50.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-02-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Squid 2.5 up to 2.5.STABLE7 allows remote attackers to poison the cache or conduct certain attacks via headers that do not follow the HTTP specification, including (1) multiple Content-Length headers, (2) carriage return (CR) characters that are not part of a CRLF pair, and (3) header names containing whitespace characters.

Affected products

Squid: 2.5.6, 2.5.stable1, 2.5.stable2, 2.5.stable3, 2.5.stable4, 2.5.stable5 (+10)

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000931
http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA--.shtml
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110780531820947&w=2
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/768702
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:034
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_06_squid.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-May/msg00025.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-060.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-061.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12412
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/#squid-2.5.STABLE7-header_parsing
http://www3.br.squid-cache.org/Advisories/SQUID-2005_4.txt

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