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7.5high

CVE-2022-40468

Potential leak of left-over heap data if custom error page templates containing special non-standard variables are used.

Published 4 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.5
v3.1 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.9%
percentile 80%
Public exploits
0
none known

Potential leak of left-over heap data if custom error page templates containing special non-standard variables are used. Tinyproxy commit 84f203f and earlier use uninitialized buffers in process_request() function.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.90% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.17.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1188 Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default

References

  • github.com /tinyproxy/tinyproxy · x_transferred
  • github.com /tinyproxy/tinyproxy/blob/84f203fb1c4733608c7283bbe794005a469c4b00/src/reqs.c#L346 · x_transferred
  • github.com /tinyproxy/tinyproxy/issues/457 · x_transferred
  • github.com /tinyproxy/tinyproxy/issues/457#issuecomment-1264176815 · x_transferred
  • security.gentoo.org /glsa/202305-27 · vendor-advisory, x_transferred
  • lists.debian.org /debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00035.html

Sources

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