Information Exposure Affecting curl package, versions <7.76.0-r0


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 1.22% (86th percentile)
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NVD
5.3 medium
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SUSE
6.1 medium
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Red Hat
3.7 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE316-CURL-2841929
  • published 15 Apr 2021
  • disclosed 1 Apr 2021

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.16 curl to version 7.76.0-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream curl package and not the curl package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.16 relevant fixed versions and status.

curl 7.1.1 to and including 7.75.0 is vulnerable to an "Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor" by leaking credentials in the HTTP Referer: header. libcurl does not strip off user credentials from the URL when automatically populating the Referer: HTTP request header field in outgoing HTTP requests, and therefore risks leaking sensitive data to the server that is the target of the second HTTP request.