| Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2025-3613 |
| Date Published: | 2 Nov 2025 |
| Severity: | High |
| Last Updated: | Thursday 11 June, 2026 |
| Source: | |
| Industry Reference: | CVE-2025-62168 |
| Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
| Who is Vulnerable? | Squid prior to 7.2 |
| Vulnerability Description | An information disclosure vulnerability in Squid allows remote attackers to bypass browser security protections and learn the credentials a trusted client uses to authenticate. This potentially allows a remote client to identify security tokens or credentials used internally by a web application using Squid for backend load balancing. |
This protection detects attempts to exploit this vulnerability.
In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.
This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Proxy Server Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: Squid Information Disclosure (CVE-2025-62168)