An issue was discovered in Squid before 4.15 and 5.x before 5.0.6. Due to a memory-management bug, it is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack (against all clients using the proxy) via HTTP Range request processing.
Published 2021-05-27 13:15:08
Updated 2023-10-24 14:36:29
Source MITRE
View at NVD,   CVE.org
Vulnerability category: Denial of service

Threat overview for CVE-2021-31806

Top countries where our scanners detected CVE-2021-31806
Top open port discovered on systems with this issue 3128
IPs affected by CVE-2021-31806 2,092,123
Threat actors abusing to this issue? Yes
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2021-31806

91.62%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 99 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

Metasploit modules for CVE-2021-31806

  • Squid Proxy Range Header DoS
    Disclosure Date: 2021-05-27
    First seen: 2022-12-23
    auxiliary/dos/http/squid_range_dos
    The range handler in The Squid Caching Proxy Server 3.0-4.1.4 and 5.0.1-5.0.5 suffers from multiple vulnerabilities triggered by specific HTTP requests and responses. These vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service through

CVSS scores for CVE-2021-31806

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
4.0
MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
8.0
2.9
NIST
6.5
MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
2.8
3.6
NIST

CWE ids for CVE-2021-31806

  • The product prepares a structured message for communication with another component, but encoding or escaping of the data is either missing or done incorrectly. As a result, the intended structure of the message is not preserved.
    Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

References for CVE-2021-31806

Products affected by CVE-2021-31806

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