Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting libcurl-devel package, versions <0:7.61.1-22.el8_6.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.53% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-LIBCURLDEVEL-4295554
  • published 27 Apr 2022
  • disclosed 27 Apr 2022

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 libcurl-devel to version 0:7.61.1-22.el8_6.3 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2022:5313.

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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 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
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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Red Hat

5 medium