CVE-1999-0710: Red Hat Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 11.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Squid package in Red Hat Linux 5.2 and 6.0, and other distributions, installs cachemgr.cgi in a public web directory, which allows remote attackers to use it as an intermediary to connect to other systems.

Affected products

• Red Hat Linux: version 5.2 only; version 6.0 only

Published 1999-07-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.