Overview
- Description
- An issue was discovered in Squid through 4.7. When Squid is run as root, it spawns its child processes as a lesser user, by default the user nobody. This is done via the leave_suid call. leave_suid leaves the Saved UID as 0. This makes it trivial for an attacker who has compromised the child process to escalate their privileges back to root.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 4.5
- Impact score
- 3.4
- Exploitability score
- 1
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Severity
- MEDIUM
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 4.4
- Impact score
- 6.4
- Exploitability score
- 3.4
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-269
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:squid-cache:squid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "A5584C95-5CB1-4D45-8C05-633746AE2AB4",
"versionEndIncluding": "4.7"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]