Information Exposure Affecting curl package, versions [,7.43.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.29% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CURL-2317562
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed1 May 2015
  • creditYehezkel Horowitz and Oren Souroujon

Introduced: 1 May 2015

CVE-2015-3153  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade curl to version 7.43.0 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. The default configuration for cURL and libcurl before 7.42.1 sends custom HTTP headers to both the proxy and destination server, which might allow remote proxy servers to obtain sensitive information by reading the header contents.

CVSS Scores

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