Arbitrary Code Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package curl  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-CURL-600011
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed2 Jul 2019

Introduced: 2 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-5443  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream curl package and not the curl package as distributed by Debian.

A non-privileged user or program can put code and a config file in a known non-privileged path (under C:/usr/local/) that will make curl <= 7.65.1 automatically run the code (as an openssl "engine") on invocation. If that curl is invoked by a privileged user it can do anything it wants.