Tinyproxy
CVE-2012-3505
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A04:2025 - Cryptographic Failures
ASVS 5.0
V11 - Cryptography Cryptographic controls
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| Impact | CVSS score of 5.0 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity. EPSS exploitation probability: 2.52%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the medium-severity affected system. |
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Tinyproxy 1.8.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via (1) a large number of headers or (2) a large number of forged headers that trigger. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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This vulnerability is classified under CWE-310. Tinyproxy 1.8.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via (1) a large number of headers or (2) a large number of forged headers that trigger hash collisions predictably. bucket. Affected products include: Banu Tinyproxy.
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AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
Tinyproxy 1.8.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via (1) a large number of headers or (2) a large number of forged headers that trigger hash collisions predictably. bucket.
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Attack Technique
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
Potential leak of left-over heap data if custom error page templates containing special non-standard variables are used.
Tinyproxy through 1.11.2 contains an integer overflow vulnerability in the strip_return_port() function within src/reqs.
HTTP request smuggling in Tinyproxy through 1.11.3 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to desynchronize the proxy an
HTTP request smuggling in Tinyproxy through 1.11.3 lets remote unauthenticated attackers desynchronize the proxy and bac
Authentication bypass in Tinyproxy through 1.11.3 lets unauthenticated remote attackers reach the internal statistics pa
Remote denial of service in tinyproxy versions through 1.11.3 allows unauthenticated attackers to exhaust all proxy work
HTTP request smuggling and denial of service in Tinyproxy through 1.11.3 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to caus
main.c in Tinyproxy 1.8.4 and earlier creates a /run/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.pid file after dropping privileges to a non-roo
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