CVE-2020-36420

HIGH 7.5CVE-2020-36420 · Published 15/07/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-36420 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting polipo (polipo project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.9%, higher than 79.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
polipo polipo_project	`≤ 1.1.1`	No fix yet

Description

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 products that are no longer supported by the maintainer

References

openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/18/1 · Mailing List
bugs.gentoo.org/755896 · Exploit
jech/polipo commit 4d42ca1 · Patch
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/11/18/1 · Exploit

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