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29-Year-Old Squid Proxy Bug 'Squidbleed' Can Leak Cleartext HTTP Requests


A 29-year-old bug in the Squid web proxy, dubbed Squidbleed and tracked as CVE-2026-47729, can let an authorized proxy user retrieve fragments of another user's cleartext HTTP requests, including credentials and session tokens. The security researcher who reported the flaw credited Anthropic's Claud...

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