Home > Vulnerability Database > CVE-2021-44541

Mend Vulnerability Database

New vulnerability? Tell us about it!

CVE-2021-44541

Good to know:

Date: December 23, 2021

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.

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (5)

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2021-44541

Url: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-44541

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44541

Url: https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=commit;h=652b4b7cb0

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-44541

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

CWE-401

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
Additional information:

Do you need more information?

Contact Us