High (7.5) in squid-cache squid. EPSS 9.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The Edge Side Includes (ESI) parser in Squid 3.x before 3.5.15 and 4.x before 4.0.7 does not check buffer limits during XML parsing, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a crafted XML document, related to esi/CustomParser.cc and esi/CustomParser.h.
Severity
CVSS 3.0
7.5 high
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
9.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)