Polipo before 1.0.4.1 suffers from a DoD vulnerability via specially-crafted HTTP POST / PUT request.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2011-3596 is rated High Exploit Risk (75.2/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 13.88%, 94th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
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| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36198 | exploit_db | edb | 2011-10-01 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2025-05-09 | 16.56% | 13.88% | -2.68% |
| 2 | 2025-04-06 | 15.29% | 16.56% | +1.27% |
| 3 | 2025-03-30 | — | 15.29% | — |
Full EPSS history (21 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | 3.1 | HIGH |
|
3.9 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
| 5.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
|
10.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu
|
medium | CVE-2011-3596 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (polipo), 17 status rows across 17 suites (hardy, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 12, not-affected 3, DNE 1, released 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-3596 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| polipo_project | polipo | < 1.0.4.1 | cpe:2.3:a:polipo_project:polipo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| debian | debian_linux | 9.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| debian | debian_linux | 10.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3596 | Third Party Advisory |
| https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=644289 | Third Party Advisory |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3596 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
| https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3596 | Third Party Advisory |