Information Exposure Affecting curl package, versions [7.62.0,7.71.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CURL-2317522
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed14 Dec 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-8169  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade curl to version 7.71.0 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 Information Exposure curl 7.62.0 through 7.70.0 is vulnerable to an information disclosure vulnerability that can lead to a partial password being leaked over the network and to the DNS server(s).

CVSS Scores

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