CVE-2020-35502

HIGH

Privoxy < 3.0.29 - Denial of Service via Memory Leak in Response Buffer

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A flaw was found in Privoxy in versions before 3.0.29. Memory leaks when a response is buffered and the buffer limit is reached or Privoxy is running out of memory can lead to a system crash.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1928749
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.privoxy.org/3.0.29/user-manual/whatsnew.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-16

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0236
EPSS Percentile 81.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (1)
privoxy/privoxy < 3.0.29
Published Mar 25, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026