Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-44540

High

Published: 23 December 2021

Published
23 December 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0043 63.0th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-44540 is a high-severity Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime (CWE-401) vulnerability in Privoxy Privoxy. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 37.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability was found in Privoxy which was fixed in get_url_spec_param() by freeing memory of compiled pattern spec before bailing.

CWE(s)
CWE-401

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

privoxy
privoxy
≤ 3.0.33

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References