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CVE-2023-49606

Published: May 1, 2024

Modified: Nov 4, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

9.8

CRITICAL

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the HTTP Connection Headers parsing in Tinyproxy 1.11.1 and Tinyproxy 1.10.0. A specially crafted HTTP header can trigger reuse of previously freed memory, which leads to memory corruption and could lead to remote code execution. An attacker needs to make an unauthenticated HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability.

VendorProductVersions

Tinyproxy

Tinyproxy

affected
1.11.1
affected
Tinyproxy 1.10.0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-416

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

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