CVE-2023-49606

Publication date 1 May 2024

Last updated 8 January 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
tinyproxy 24.10 oracular
Fixed 1.11.2-1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 1.11.1-3ubuntu0.1
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1.10.0-4ubuntu0.2
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H