CVE-2021-20216 is a memory leak vulnerability affecting Privoxy versions prior to 3.0.31, triggered when decompression fails unexpectedly. This flaw has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity, requiring no user interaction, and primarily poses a denial-of-service risk to system availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 3.0.31CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:privoxy:privoxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.