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CVE-2011-3596

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 11.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-11-26 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-617

Description

Polipo before 1.0.4.1 suffers from a DoD vulnerability via specially-crafted HTTP POST / PUT request.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• Polipo Project Polipo: before 1.0.4.1 — fixed in 1.0.4.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Polipo Project Polipo 1.0.4.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3596
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=644289
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3596
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3596
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3596
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=644289
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3596
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3596

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