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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0801

Original release date:03/04/2009

Last revised:06/18/2009

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Squid, when transparent interception mode is enabled, uses the HTTP Host header to determine the remote endpoint, which allows remote attackers to bypass access controls for Flash, Java, Silverlight, and probably other technologies, and possibly communicate with restricted intranet sites, via a crafted web page that causes a client to send HTTP requests with a modified Host header.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:5.4 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.9

Exploitability Subscore: 4.9

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism

Access Complexity: High

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/09/2009)

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-0801 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#435052

Name: VU#435052

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/435052

External Source: BID

Name: 33858

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33858