High severity · published Oct 13, 2026
CVE-2026-61642
Squid Request Smuggling in HTTP Transfer-Encoding
7.7
CVSS
2.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. From 3.3.0.1 to before 7.6, due to an improper enforcement of behavioral workflow bug, Squid is vulnerable to a Request Smuggling attack against HTTP/1.1 Transfer-Encoding. HTTP header parsing (`src/HttpHeader.cc`) accepted the bare` Transfer-Encoding:` identity form, which the HTTP specification prohibits because any transfer coding must be wrapped within chunked encoding. This problem allows a trusted client to perform an HTTP Request Smuggling attack when HTTP/1.1 is used, bypassing security mechanisms that may be in place between attacker and Squid. When there is an HTTP cache operating prior to the affected Squid, this Request Smuggling attack also allows the attacker to poison that web cache and store arbitrary malicious content at any URL for delivery to other clients' future requests. This issue is fixed in version 7.6.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.2% · higher than 83% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SQ
squid · squid-cache
>= 3.3.0.1, < 7.6 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-61642
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-61642
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/security/advisories/GHSA-537g-4gfh-w7m6
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/pull/2427
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/pull/2431
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/d06f48de8b8cc9a378cb91ecfe8e89b6e81696d2
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/commit/d808a7c825a70275113790471135c9c4d547ee51
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/releases/tag/SQUID_7_6
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