Improper Authentication Affecting curl package, versions [0,7.35.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.71% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CURL-2317568
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed2 Feb 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Feb 2014

CVE-2014-0015  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade curl to version 7.35.0 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 Authentication cURL and libcurl 7.10.6 through 7.34.0, when more than one authentication method is enabled, re-uses NTLM connections, which might allow context-dependent attackers to authenticate as other users via a request.

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