High (8.6). EPSS 80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
client_side.cc in Squid before 3.5.18 and 4.x before 4.0.10 does not properly ignore the Host header when absolute-URI is provided, which allows remote attackers to conduct cache-poisoning attacks via an HTTP request.
Severity
CVSS 3.0
8.6 high
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)