An issue was discovered in Squid through 4.7. When Squid is run as root, it spawns its child processes as a lesser user, by default the user nobody. This is done via the leave_suid call. leave_suid leaves the Saved UID as 0. This makes it trivial for an attacker who has compromised the child process to escalate their privileges back to root.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-04-15T19:00:01

Updated: 2024-08-04T23:24:38.888Z

Reserved: 2019-06-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-12522

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-04-15T19:15:12.473

Modified: 2021-03-10T17:27:49.417

Link: CVE-2019-12522

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2020-04-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-12522 - Bugzilla