CVE-2023-46728
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2023-11-06
- Fixed in6.0.1
- WeaknessCWE-476
Am I affected?
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Description
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a NULL pointer dereference bug Squid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against Squid's Gopher gateway. The gopher protocol is always available and enabled in Squid prior to Squid 6.0.1. Responses triggering this bug are possible to be received from any gopher server, even those without malicious intent. Gopher support has been removed in Squid version 6.0.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should reject all gopher URL requests.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2023-11-0618:15CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 21:37 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2023-46728?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2023-46728?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | < 6.0.1 | 6.0.1 | NVD |
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Distribution builds and vendor advisories
Packages from OSV.dev and products from the vendors' CSAF advisories.
version not verifiedVersions not verified: read as OSV.dev and the vendors publish them, not checked against each vendor's release list.
Packages
- libecapAlmaLinux:8all versions · fixed in 1.0.1-2.module_el8.6.0+2741+01592ae8and 1 other package
- libecapAlmaLinux:8all versions · fixed in 1.0.1-2.module_el8.6.0+3048+383bc947and 1 other package
- squidAlmaLinux:9all versions · fixed in 7:5.5-6.el9_3.5
- squidAlmaLinux:8all versions · fixed in 7:4.15-7.module_el8.9.0+3708+6acaac63.5
Fix
- Update Squid-cache squid to 6.0.1
Advisories and patches
- github.comPatch
- github.comVendor Advisory
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Published
- 2023-11-06
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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