Use After Free Affecting tinyproxy/tinyproxy package, versions [1.10.0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
74.25% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TINYPROXYTINYPROXY-6785196
  • published2 May 2024
  • disclosed1 May 2024
  • creditDimitrios Tatsis

Introduced: 1 May 2024

CVE-2023-49606  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for tinyproxy/tinyproxy.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free due to the HTTP Connection Headers parsing process. An attacker can cause memory corruption and potentially execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted HTTP header that triggers reuse of previously freed memory.

CVSS Base Scores

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