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CVE-2026-50012

5.5 medium SSVC exploitation: none Analyzed

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Prior to 7.6, due to an improper input validation bug in cache digest reply handling (peerDigestSwapInMask in src/peer_digest.cc), Squid is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow: a cache digest's on-the-wire size may be larger than the mask_size declared within the digest, so a trusted peer sending a maliciously crafted reply to a cache_digest request message can trigger the overflow. This attack is limited to Squid instances compiled with the --enable-cache-digests option and configured with cache_peer entries. This issue is fixed in version 7.6.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 3

Vendor advisories in the News 1

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 5.5 · squid-cacheNVD modified 2026-10-24 20:10

Affected (CPE criteria) 1

  • cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 4