# CVE-2021-20209: A memory leak vulnerability was found in Privoxy before 3.0.29 in the show-status CGI handler when no action files are configured.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-05-25 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- n/a privoxy: before 3.0.29

## Description

A memory leak vulnerability was found in Privoxy before 3.0.29 in the show-status CGI handler when no action files are configured.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a privoxy, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://www.privoxy.org/3.0.29/user-manual/whatsnew.html
- https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c62254a686
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1928726
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-16

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