Polipo Project maintains a lightweight HTTP caching proxy originally developed as an alternative to Squid, with a narrowly scoped product footprint centered on the Polipo proxy itself. Observed vulnerabilities cluster around assertion failures and out-of-bounds write conditions, reflecting the memory-safety challenges inherent to a C-based proxy implementation; current severity, exploitation, and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Polipo Project over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (6 CVEs).
6 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2011-3596HIGH Polipo before 1.0.4.1 suffers from a DoD vulnerability via specially-crafted HTTP POST / PUT request. | Nov 26, 2019 | 7.5 | 40 | NO | YES |
CVE-2020-36420HIGH Polipo through 1.1.1, when NDEBUG is omitted, allows denial of service via a reachable assertion during parsing of a malformed Range header. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects p | Jul 15, 2021 | 7.5 | 24 | NO | NO |
CVE-2021-38614HIGH Polipo through 1.1.1, when NDEBUG is used, allows a heap-based buffer overflow during parsing of a Range header. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer s | Aug 12, 2021 | 7.5 | 23 | NO | NO |
CVE-2005-3163MEDIUM Unspecified vulnerability in Polipo 0.9.8 and earlier allows attackers to read files outside of the web root. | Oct 6, 2005 | 5.0 | 17 | NO | NO |
CVE-2007-4626MEDIUM Unspecified vulnerability in Polipo before 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via certain network traffic associated with entities larger tha | Aug 31, 2007 | 5.0 | 15 | NO | NO |
CVE-2007-4625MEDIUM Polipo before 1.0.2 allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by aborting the response to a POST request. | Aug 31, 2007 | 4.3 | 14 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (6 CVEs).
An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Polipo Project.
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