Arbitrary Code Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package curl  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1204-CURL-573162
  • published24 Jun 2020
  • disclosed14 Dec 2020

Introduced: 24 Jun 2020

CVE-2020-8177  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

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

curl 7.20.0 through 7.70.0 is vulnerable to improper restriction of names for files and other resources that can lead too overwriting a local file when the -J flag is used.