Improper Input Validation Affecting curl package, versions [,7.47.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CURL-2317514
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed29 Jan 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Jan 2016

CVE-2016-0754  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade curl to version 7.47.0 or higher.

Overview

curl is a command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation cURL before 7.47.0 on Windows allows attackers to write to arbitrary files in the current working directory on a different drive via a colon in a remote file name.

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