Improper Certificate Validation Affecting curl package, versions <7.68.0-1ubuntu2.11


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-CURL-2814203
  • published11 May 2022
  • disclosed2 Jun 2022

Introduced: 11 May 2022

CVE-2022-27782  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:20.04 curl to version 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.11 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

libcurl would reuse a previously created connection even when a TLS or SSHrelated option had been changed that should have prohibited reuse.libcurl keeps previously used connections in a connection pool for subsequenttransfers to reuse if one of them matches the setup. However, several TLS andSSH settings were left out from the configuration match checks, making themmatch too easily.

CVSS Scores

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