Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. In Squid versions prior to 7.2, a failure to redact HTTP authentication credentials in error handling allows information disclosure. The vulnerability allows a script to bypass browser security protections and learn the credentials a trusted client uses to authenticate. This potentially allows a remote client to identify security tokens or credentials used internally by a web application using Squid for backend load balancing. These attacks do not require Squid to be configured with HTTP authentication. The vulnerability is fixed in version 7.2. As a workaround, disable debug information in administrator mailto links generated by Squid by configuring squid.conf with email_err_data off.
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| Description | Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. In Squid versions prior to 7.2, a failure to redact HTTP authentication credentials in error handling allows information disclosure. The vulnerability allows a script to bypass browser security protections and learn the credentials a trusted client uses to authenticate. This potentially allows a remote client to identify security tokens or credentials used internally by a web application using Squid for backend load balancing. These attacks do not require Squid to be configured with HTTP authentication. The vulnerability is fixed in version 7.2. As a workaround, disable debug information in administrator mailto links generated by Squid by configuring squid.conf with email_err_data off. | |
| Title | Squid vulnerable to information disclosure via authentication credential leakage in error handling | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-209 CWE-550 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2025-10-17T16:21:30.156Z
Updated: 2025-10-18T03:55:46.046Z
Reserved: 2025-10-07T16:12:03.425Z
Link: CVE-2025-62168
Updated: 2025-10-17T17:21:51.075Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2025-10-17T17:15:49.037
Modified: 2025-10-21T19:31:50.020
Link: CVE-2025-62168