CVE-2025-62168
Squid vulnerable to information disclosure via authentication credential leakage in error handling
- Published
- Oct 17, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 26, 2026
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Evidence observed
- Aug 25, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:NHigh · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 99.2%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
3Proof-of-Concept (PoC) for CVE-2025-62168 👾
Scanner and proof-of-concept for CVE-2025-62168, detecting Squid Proxy information disclosure that leaks HTTP authentication credentials.
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