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FKIE_CVE-2020-17509

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-01-11 10:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:59
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
ATS negative cache option is vulnerable to a cache poisoning attack. If you have this option enabled, please upgrade or disable this feature. Apache Traffic Server versions 7.0.0 to 7.1.11 and 8.0.0 to 8.1.0 are affected.
References
security@apache.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/raa9f0589c26c4d146646425e51e2a33e1457492df9f7ea2019daa6d3%40%3Cannounce.trafficserver.apache.org%3EMailing List, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/raa9f0589c26c4d146646425e51e2a33e1457492df9f7ea2019daa6d3%40%3Cannounce.trafficserver.apache.org%3EMailing List, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
apache traffic_server *
apache traffic_server *
apache traffic_server *
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