Cache-Poisoning Vulnerability in Squid Proxy Server

CVE-2016-4553 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

client_side.cc in Squid before 3.5.18 and 4.x before 4.0.10 does not properly ignore the Host header when absolute-URI is provided, which allows remote attackers to conduct cache-poisoning attacks via an HTTP request.

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