CVE-2012-1783

high

Published 2012-03-19 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

Tiny Server 1.1.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long string in a GET request without an HTTP version number.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18524 dos windows verified

localh0t · 2012-02-25

Tiny HTTP Server 1.1.9 - Remote Crash (PoC)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
saurabh_gupta	tiny_server	`{"endIncluding":"1.1.9"}`
saurabh_gupta	tiny_server	`1.0.5`
saurabh_gupta	tiny_server	`1.1.5`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.