What is CVE-2011-3596?

CVE-2011-3596 is a high-severity vulnerability in Polipo, classified under Reachable Assertion. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-11-26.

How severe is CVE-2011-3596?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Polipo

CVE-2011-3596

Polipo before 1.0.4.1 suffers from a DoD vulnerability via specially-crafted HTTP POST / PUT request.

Published 2019-11-26 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.111 (95.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-28.

Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 95.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.111 · newest: 0.111 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Polipo — versions before 1.0.4.1
Polipo Project
Debian Linux — versions 8.0, 9.0, 10.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-617 — Reachable Assertion

References

security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3596 (Third Party Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3596 (Third Party Advisory)
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2011-3596?: CVE-2011-3596 is a high-severity vulnerability in Polipo, classified under Reachable Assertion. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-11-26.
How severe is CVE-2011-3596?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.