Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting libcurl-devel package, versions <0:7.79.1-2.amzn2.0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.2% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-LIBCURLDEVEL-2808767
  • published 6 May 2022
  • disclosed 2 Jun 2022

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 libcurl-devel to version 0:7.79.1-2.amzn2.0.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2022-1792.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcurl-devel package and not the libcurl-devel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

An insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability exists in curl 4.9 to and include curl 7.82.0 are affected that could allow an attacker to extract credentials when follows HTTP(S) redirects is used with authentication could leak credentials to other services that exist on different protocols or port numbers.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

5.7 medium
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Red Hat

5 medium