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CVE-2012-3505

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-3505 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Tinyproxy 1.8.3 and earlier, allowing remote attackers to consume CPU and memory resources. This can be triggered by sending a large number of headers or forged headers designed to cause hash collisions. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.8.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:banu:tinyproxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:banu:tinyproxy:1.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:banu:tinyproxy:1.5.0:pre1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:banu:tinyproxy:1.5.0:pre2:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:banu:tinyproxy:1.5.0:pre3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0735 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
banu.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
banu.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
bugs.launchpad.net / ubuntu/+source/tinyproxy/+bug/1036985
secunia.com / advisories/50278
secunia.com / advisories/51074
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2564
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/08/17/3
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/08/18/1
securitytracker.com / id