Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input Affecting libcurl-devel package, versions <0:7.79.1-6.amzn2.0.1


Severity

medium

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.15% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-LIBCURLDEVEL-3110361
  • published 9 Nov 2022
  • disclosed 23 Sep 2022

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 libcurl-devel to version 0:7.79.1-6.amzn2.0.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2022-1875.

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.

When curl is used to retrieve and parse cookies from a HTTP(S) server, itaccepts cookies using control codes that when later are sent back to a HTTPserver might make the server return 400 responses. Effectively allowing a"sister site" to deny service to all siblings.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

3.1 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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NVD

3.7 low
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SUSE

3.7 low
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Red Hat

3.1 low