CVE-2021-28662

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 71.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-05-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-116

Description

An issue was discovered in Squid 4.x before 4.15 and 5.x before 5.0.6. If a remote server sends a certain response header over HTTP or HTTPS, there is a denial of service. This header can plausibly occur in benign network traffic.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 10.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 33, 34
Squid: from 4.0.1 before 4.15; from 5.0 before 5.0.6 — fixed in 4.15, 5.0.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Squid 4.15, 5.0.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/14
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/11/3
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v6/changesets/squid-6-051824924c709bd6162a378f746fb859454c674e.patch
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/051824924c709bd6162a378f746fb859454c674e
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-jjq6-mh2h-g39h
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LSQ3U54ZCNXR44QRPW3AV2VCS6K3TKCF/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T4EPIWUZDJAXADDHVOPKRBTQHPBR6H66/
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4924
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Oct/14
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/11/3
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v6/changesets/squid-6-051824924c709bd6162a378f746fb859454c674e.patch
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/051824924c709bd6162a378f746fb859454c674e

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