SQUID is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling, caused by chunked decoder lenience, allows a remote attacker to perform Request/Response smuggling past firewall and frontend security systems.
CVE-2023-46846
This medium-severity CVE scores 5.3 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 5.3%, top 8% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 5.3
- EG Score
- 5.3(medium)
- EG Risk
- —
- EPSS
- 91.7%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
November 3, 2023
Last Modified
June 17, 2026
References (28)
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6266
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6267
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6268
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6748
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6801
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6803
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6804
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6810
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7213
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:11049
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-46846
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245910
- secalert@redhathttps://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-j83v-w3p4-5cqh
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6266
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6267
Patch Availability(11)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | squidclient (6.1-2ubuntu1.1) @ mantic | 2026-05-24 | ubuntu |
| redhat | squid-7:3.5.20-17.el7_9.13 | 2024-12-16 | redhat |
| redhat | squid:4-8090020231030224841.a75119d5 | 2023-11-14 | redhat |
| redhat | squid:4-8020020231101135052.4cda2c84 | 2023-11-08 | redhat |
| redhat | squid:4-8010020231101141358.c27ad7f8 | 2023-11-08 | redhat |
| redhat | squid:4-8040020231101101624.522a0ee4 | 2023-11-08 | redhat |
| redhat | squid:4-8060020231031165747.ad008a3a | 2023-11-08 | redhat |
| redhat | squid-7:5.5-6.el9_3.1 | 2023-11-07 | redhat |
| redhat | squid-7:5.5-5.el9_2.1 | 2023-11-02 | redhat |
| redhat | squid-7:5.2-1.el9_0.3 | 2023-11-02 | redhat |
| redhat | squid:4-8080020231030214932.63b34585 | 2023-11-02 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
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Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
- Red HatRHSA-2023:6266IMPORTANT2023-10-19
RHSA-2023:6266 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2023:6267IMPORTANT2023-10-19
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- Red HatRHSA-2023:6268IMPORTANT2023-10-19
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- Red HatRHSA-2023:6748IMPORTANT2023-10-19
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- Red HatRHSA-2023:6801IMPORTANT2023-10-19
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- Red HatRHSA-2023:6803IMPORTANT2023-10-19
RHSA-2023:6803 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2023:6804IMPORTANT2023-10-19
RHSA-2023:6804 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2023:6810IMPORTANT2023-10-19
RHSA-2023:6810 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2023:7213IMPORTANT2023-10-19
RHSA-2023:7213 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2024:11049IMPORTANT2023-10-19
RHSA-2024:11049 — Important
- UbuntuUSN-6500-1MEDIUM
Squid vulnerabilities
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