VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2021-20216
A memory leak that occurs when decompression fails unexpectedly may lead to a denial of service.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 2.28%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.28%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A flaw was found in Privoxy in versions before 3.0.31. A memory leak that occurs when decompression fails unexpectedly may lead to a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.28% probability · 82th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400, CWE-401
- Affected
- privoxy/privoxy
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1923256Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-16Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/31/2Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.privoxy.org/3.0.31/user-manual/whatsnew.htmlRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1923256Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-16Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/31/2Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.privoxy.org/3.0.31/user-manual/whatsnew.htmlRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.