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Improper Certificate Validation Affecting curl package, versions <7.54.0-r0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.46% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE321-CURL-8482991
  • published6 Dec 2024
  • disclosed16 Jul 2018
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Introduced: 16 Jul 2018

CVE-2017-7468  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.21 curl to version 7.54.0-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:3.21 relevant fixed versions and status.

In curl and libcurl 7.52.0 to and including 7.53.1, libcurl would attempt to resume a TLS session even if the client certificate had changed. That is unacceptable since a server by specification is allowed to skip the client certificate check on resume, and may instead use the old identity which was established by the previous certificate (or no certificate). libcurl supports by default the use of TLS session id/ticket to resume previous TLS sessions to speed up subsequent TLS handshakes. They are used when for any reason an existing TLS connection couldn't be kept alive to make the next handshake faster. This flaw is a regression and identical to CVE-2016-5419 reported on August 3rd 2016, but affecting a different version range.