CVE-2021-44541

HIGH

Privoxy < 3.0.33 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

A vulnerability was found in Privoxy which was fixed in process_encrypted_request_headers() by freeing header memory when failing to get the request destination.

References (2)

[Various Sources] https://www.privoxy.org/3.0.33/user-manual/whatsnew.html%2C

[Various Sources] https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=652b4b7cb0

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0046

EPSS Percentile 63.6%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-401

Status published

Affected Products (1)

privoxy/privoxy < 3.0.33

Timeline

Published Dec 23, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026