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alsa-2025:20935

Vulnerability from osv_almalinux

Published

2025-11-11 00:00

Modified

2025-11-19 09:24

Summary

Important: squid security update

Details

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, and HTTP data objects.

Security Fix(es):

squid-cache: Squid vulnerable to information disclosure via authentication credential leakage in error handling (CVE-2025-62168)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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  "id": "ALSA-2025:20935",
  "modified": "2025-11-19T09:24:20Z",
  "published": "2025-11-11T00:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:20935"
    },
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-62168"
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    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2404736"
    },
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      "url": "https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-20935.html"
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  "related": [
    "CVE-2025-62168"
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  "summary": "Important: squid security update"
}

CVE-2025-62168 (GCVE-0-2025-62168)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-17 16:21 – Updated: 2025-11-05 17:04

Title

Squid vulnerable to information disclosure via authentication credential leakage in error handling

Summary

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. In Squid versions prior to 7.2, a failure to redact HTTP authentication credentials in error handling allows information disclosure. The vulnerability allows a script to bypass browser security protections and learn the credentials a trusted client uses to authenticate. This potentially allows a remote client to identify security tokens or credentials used internally by a web application using Squid for backend load balancing. These attacks do not require Squid to be configured with HTTP authentication. The vulnerability is fixed in version 7.2. As a workaround, disable debug information in administrator mailto links generated by Squid by configuring squid.conf with email_err_data off.

Severity ?

10 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

CWE

CWE-209 - Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information
CWE-550 - Server-generated Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/adv…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/0951a…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	squid-cache	squid	Affected: < 7.2

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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