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Sead Fadilpašić

Security flaw in popular proxy service leaves 50,000 hosts vulnerable

CDN.

More than half of Tinyproxy service hosts are running a flawed version which hackers could use in remote code execution attacks, a new report from researchers from Cisco Talos has claimed.

Tinyproxy is a lightweight HTTP/HTTPS proxy server commonly used to improve internet access speed by caching frequently accessed web pages, filtering out unwanted content, and providing anonymity. 

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