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CVE-2020-25219

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-25219 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting libproxy versions 0.4.x through 0.4.15, impacting products from Canonical, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE. A remote HTTP server can exploit this flaw by sending an infinite stream without a newline character, causing uncontrolled recursion and leading to stack exhaustion. This attack requires no user interaction and has a high impact on availability, but there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0.4.0, <= 0.4.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libproxy_project:libproxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0428 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19200-16823Fixed in: 0.4.15-20
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 libproxy 0.4.15-20 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 0.4.15-20
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 2.0 x64Fixed in: 0.4.15-20
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 2.0 ARMFixed in: 0.4.15-20
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update SupportFixed in: libproxy-0:0.4.15-5.4.el8_8
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: libproxy

Vendor Advisories (3)

microsoft2021-Dec/CVE-2020-25219

CVE-2020-25219

Dec 14, 2021
redhatCVE-2020-25219Moderate

libproxy: uncontrolled recursion via an infinite stream response leading to stack exhaustion

Sep 9, 2020
microsoft2020-Sep/CVE-2020-25219Important

url::recvline in url.cpp in libproxy 0.4.x through 0.4.15 allows a remote HTTP server to trigger uncontrolled recursion via a response composed of an infinite stream that lacks a newline character. This leads to stack exhaustion.

Sep 8, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00030.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00033.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
github.com / libproxy/libproxy/issues/134
ExploitThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00012.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CNID6EZVOVH7EZB7KFU2EON54CFDIVUR
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JF5JSONJNO64ARWRVOS6K6HSIPHEF3H2
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSVZAAVHBJR3Z4MZNR55QW3OQFAS2STH
usn.ubuntu.com / 4514-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4800
Third Party Advisory