Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting curl package, versions [7.62.0,7.71.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CURL-2317584
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed14 Dec 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-8177  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (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 Arbitrary Code Injection curl 7.20.0 through 7.70.0 is vulnerable to improper restriction of names for files and other resources that can lead too overwriting a local file when the -J flag is used.

CVSS Scores

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