8.7
HIGH CVSS 4.0
CVE-2026-3945
Tinyproxy Integer Overflow Denial of Service
Description

An integer overflow vulnerability in the HTTP chunked transfer encoding parser in tinyproxy up to and including version 1.11.3 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS). The issue occurs because chunk size values are parsed using strtol() without properly validating overflow conditions (e.g., errno == ERANGE). A crafted chunk size such as 0x7fffffffffffffff (LONG_MAX) bypasses the existing validation check (chunklen < 0), leading to a signed integer overflow during arithmetic operations (chunklen + 2). This results in incorrect size calculations, causing the proxy to attempt reading an extremely large amount of request-body data and holding worker connections open indefinitely. An attacker can exploit this behavior to exhaust all available worker slots, preventing new connections from being accepted and causing complete service unavailability. Upstream addressed this issue in commit bb7edc4; however, the latest stable release (1.11.3) remains affected at the time of publication.

INFO

Published Date :

March 30, 2026, 8:16 a.m.

Last Modified :

March 30, 2026, 8:16 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !

Source :

309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-3945 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

No affected product recoded yet

CVSS Scores
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Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 2.0 309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c
CVSS 3.1 HIGH 309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c
CVSS 4.0 HIGH 309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c
CVSS 4.0 HIGH 309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c
Solution
Apply the upstream patch to fix an integer overflow in chunked transfer encoding.
  • Update tinyproxy to a version that includes commit bb7edc4.
  • Review and apply relevant security patches.
  • Validate chunk size parsing logic.
  • Monitor resource utilization.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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  • New CVE Received by 309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c

    Mar. 30, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description An integer overflow vulnerability in the HTTP chunked transfer encoding parser in tinyproxy up to and including version 1.11.3 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS). The issue occurs because chunk size values are parsed using strtol() without properly validating overflow conditions (e.g., errno == ERANGE). A crafted chunk size such as 0x7fffffffffffffff (LONG_MAX) bypasses the existing validation check (chunklen < 0), leading to a signed integer overflow during arithmetic operations (chunklen + 2). This results in incorrect size calculations, causing the proxy to attempt reading an extremely large amount of request-body data and holding worker connections open indefinitely. An attacker can exploit this behavior to exhaust all available worker slots, preventing new connections from being accepted and causing complete service unavailability. Upstream addressed this issue in commit bb7edc4; however, the latest stable release (1.11.3) remains affected at the time of publication.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
    Added CWE CWE-190
    Added Reference https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/commit/969852c
    Added Reference https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/commit/bb7edc4
    Added Reference https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/issues/602
    Added Reference https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/pull/603
    Added Reference https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/releases
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