CVE-2022-40468

Published: Sep 19, 2022Modified: Nov 4, 2025

7.5

Vector

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

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

Potential leak of left-over heap data if custom error page templates containing special non-standard variables are used. Tinyproxy commit 84f203f and earlier use uninitialized buffers in process_request() function.

Affected (1)

Products: Tinyproxy Project: Tinyproxy

Tinyproxy Project

1 product

Tinyproxy

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Tinyproxy Project Tinyproxy	Up to 1.11.1

Related CWEs

CWE-1188

Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default

The product initializes or sets a resource with a default that is intended to be changed by the administrator, but the default is not secure.

References (11)

https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/blob/84f203fb1c4733608c7283bbe794005a469c4b00/src/reqs.c#L346

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitThird Party Advisory

https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/issues/457

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitThird Party Advisory

https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/issues/457#issuecomment-1264176815

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202305-27

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy