Cryptographic Issues Affecting curl package, versions <7.19.5-1.1


Severity

medium

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.15% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN12-CURL-1543936
  • published 14 Aug 2009
  • disclosed 14 Aug 2009

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 curl to version 7.19.5-1.1 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

lib/ssluse.c in cURL and libcurl 7.4 through 7.19.5, when OpenSSL is used, does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

7.3 high