External Control of File Name or Path Affecting node-libcurl package, versions *
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- published 5 Oct 2023
- disclosed 5 Oct 2023
- credit w0x42
Introduced: 5 Oct 2023
CVE-2023-38546 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for node-libcurl.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to External Control of File Name or Path via the curl_easy_duphandle function, allowing an attacker to insert cookies into a running program using this library.
When this function is used to duplicate an easy handle with cookies enabled, the cookie-enable state is also cloned. However, the actual cookies are not cloned, and if the source handle did not read any cookies from a specific file on disk, the cloned handle would store the file name as none. Subsequent use of the cloned handle that does not explicitly set a source to load cookies from would inadvertently load cookies from a file named none.
Note:
This is only exploitable if a file named none exists and is readable in the current directory of the program using libcurl and in the correct file format.
Changelog:
2023-10-04: Initial publication
2023-10-11: Published updated information, including CWE, CVSS, official references and affected versions range.