CVE-2026-125371

NameCVE-2026-125371
DescriptionTinyproxy through 1.11.3 contains an access control bypass vulnerability in acl_string_processing() in src/acl.c that compares only trailing hostname characters without checking DNS label boundaries. Attackers controlling the PTR record for their source IP, such as untrusted.net, can satisfy an 'Allow trusted.net' entry to use the proxy despite deny-by-default ACLs.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
tinyproxy (PTS)bookworm, bookworm (security)1.11.1-2.1+deb12u1vulnerable
trixie1.11.2-1vulnerable
forky, sid1.11.3-1vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
tinyproxysource(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/issues/627
Fixed by: https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/commit/3991ac8f98c6a9f05b3265018b812dbf2ca92c28

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