CVE-2012-2213

Publication date 28 April 2012

Last updated 4 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Description

Squid 3.1.9 allows remote attackers to bypass the access configuration for the CONNECT method by providing an arbitrary allowed hostname in the Host HTTP header. NOTE: this issue might not be reproducible, because the researcher is unable to provide a squid.conf file for a vulnerable system, and the observed behavior is consistent with a squid.conf file that was (perhaps inadvertently) designed to allow access based on a "req_header Host" acl regex that matches www.uol.com.br

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
squid 13.04 raring Not in release
12.10 quantal Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
11.10 oneiric Ignored end of life
11.04 natty Ignored end of life
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored end of life
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life
squid3 13.04 raring Ignored
12.10 quantal Ignored
12.04 LTS precise Ignored
11.10 oneiric Ignored end of life
11.04 natty Ignored end of life
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored end of life
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

Need to check, see reproducer in original post

sbeattie

dropping to low, as it requires a specific configuration using Host header filtering also, upstream does not have a fix for this.

seth-arnold

still unable to find a configuration that could demonstrate the problem; as of 2013-01-28, no fix from upstream either.

mdeslaur

Disputed, so ignored.

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