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CVE-2026-61642VulnerabilityPublished

Red Hat Security Advisory: squid:4 security update

Affects Red Hat squid:4Source GCVE Database

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-61642· High 7.7

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.7 High : upgrade Red Hat squid:4 to 7.6 soon.

Data as of 9 Nov 2026, 06:52 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
7.7High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
Patch
Available – fixed in 7.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 13 Oct 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 8 Nov 2026.

What to do

Upgrade squid to 7.6.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
squid-cachesquidAffected
  • >=3.3.0.1 <7.6
Fixed in
  • 7.6

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released updated Squid 4 packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to fix this vulnerability. Users should apply the security update as detailed in Red Hat advisory RHSA-2026:96078 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying the official update is the recommended mitigation. No additional or alternative mitigations are specified by Red Hat.

Description

A security update for Squid 4, a high-performance proxy caching server, addresses a vulnerability identified as CVE-2026-61642. This flaw involves HTTP request smuggling via the Transfer-Encoding header. Red Hat has issued an important security advisory for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, providing updated packages to fix this issue. The advisory includes detailed instructions for applying the update. No CVSS score is provided in the advisory, but the severity is rated as important by Red Hat Product Security.

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