CVE-2021-44541
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.50%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2021-44541
To remediate CVE-2021-44541, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/privoxy—upgrade to 3.0.33-r0 or later
- Debian/privoxy—upgrade to 3.0.32-2+deb11u1 or later
Is CVE-2021-44541 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 3.0.33-r0
- from 0, < 3.0.32-2+deb11u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |