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Vulnerability · Published Sep 9, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-25219

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the libproxy package (Alpine). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 4.4% (higher than 91% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)4.4%top 8.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20libproxy0.4.15-r8ALPINE-CVE-2020-25219
Alpine:v3.21libproxy0.4.15-r8ALPINE-CVE-2020-25219
Alpine:v3.22libproxy0.4.15-r8ALPINE-CVE-2020-25219
Alpine:v3.23libproxy0.4.15-r8ALPINE-CVE-2020-25219
Alpine:v3.24libproxy0.4.15-r8ALPINE-CVE-2020-25219
Debian:12libproxy0.4.15-15DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25219
Debian:13libproxy0.4.15-15DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25219
Debian:14libproxy0.4.15-15DEBIAN-CVE-2020-25219

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References