CVE-2011-3596 EXPLOIT
7.5
HIGH · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 11.1% (pctl 96)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
Polipo before 1.0.4.1 suffers from a DoD vulnerability via specially-crafted HTTP POST / PUT request.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.5 (HIGH, v3.1) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 11.06% — more likely to be exploited than 96% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-617 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2019-11-26 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (2)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| debian | debian linux |
| polipo project | polipo |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | Polipo 1.0.4.1 - POST/PUT HTTP Header Processing Denial of Service | 2011-10-01 |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3596
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=644289
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3596
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3596
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3596
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=644289
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3596
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3596
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