🛡️ CVE-2023-46847
🟠 CVSS 8.6 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-120 NVD
8.6
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service, where a remote attacker can perform buffer overflow attack by writing up to 2 MB of arbitrary data to heap memory when Squid is configured to accept HTTP Digest Authentication.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.6
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CWE CWE-120
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-11-03
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
enterprise-linux
enterprise-linux-eus
enterprise-linux-for-arm-64
enterprise-linux-for-ibm-z-systems
enterprise-linux-for-power-little-endian
enterprise-linux-server
enterprise-linux-server-aus
enterprise-linux-server-tus
enterprise-linux-workstation
squid 3.2.0.1 6.4

References

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245916
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245916

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