CVE-2026-33526 PUBLISHED

Squid vulnerable to Denial of Service in ICP Request handling

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 20.03.2026 Published: 26.03.2026 Updated: 26.03.2026

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Prior to version 7.5, due to heap Use-After-Free, Squid is vulnerable to Denial of Service when handling ICP traffic. This problem allows a remote attacker to perform a reliable and repeatable Denial of Service attack against the Squid service using ICP protocol. This attack is limited to Squid deployments that explicitly enable ICP support (i.e. configure non-zero icp_port). This problem cannot be mitigated by denying ICP queries using icp_access rules. Version 7.5 contains a patch.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H
CVSS Score: 9.2

Product Status

Vendor squid-cache
Product squid
Versions
  • Version < 7.5 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-416: Use After Free CWE
  • CWE-826: Premature Release of Resource During Expected Lifetime CWE