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CVE-2016-4553 (GCVE-0-2016-4553)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-05-10 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:32
VLAI
Summary
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.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2016-05-06 00:00
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