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high 7.5

CVE-2019-12854 in the critical feed json

Due to incorrect string termination, Squid cachemgr.cgi 4.0 through 4.7 may access unallocated memory.

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-4434

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
11.7%
EPSS 11.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Due to incorrect string termination, Squid cachemgr.cgi 4.0 through 4.7 may access unallocated memory. On systems with memory access protections, this can cause the CGI process to terminate unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service for all clients using it.

Patch / fix

  • squid Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.8-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-12854

  • squid RHEL 8 7:4.11-3.module+el8.3.0+7851+7808b5f9
  • libecap RHEL 8 1.0.1-2.module+el8.1.0+4044+36416a77

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:4743

  • squid SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP1, SLE Module for Server Applications 15 4.9-5.11.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:2975-1

  • squid openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.16-1.5
  • squid openSUSE Leap 15.1 4.9-lp151.2.7.1
  • squid openSUSE Leap 15.0 4.9-lp150.13.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11403-1openSUSE-SU-2019:2541-1openSUSE-SU-2019:2540-1

  • libecap AlmaLinux 8 1.0.1-2.module_el8.6.0+2741+01592ae8

almalinux advisories ALSA-2020:4743

  • libecap Rocky Linux 8 1.0.1-2.module+el8.4.0+404+316a0dc5

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2020:4743

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-12854 updated cvss 4.3

squid: Denial of service in cachemgr.cgi

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) squid 4.11-3.module+el8.3.0+7851+7808b5f9, libecap 1.0.1-2.module+el8.1.0+4044+36416a77
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:4743
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 squid Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 squid, squid34 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 squid, squid-sysvinit, squid-migration-script
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

11.72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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