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cURL/libcURL 'tailmatch()' Function Information Disclosure

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 6905

Synopsis

The cURL program is a library and command-line tool for transferring data using various protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and LDAP. A vulnerable version of cURL was detected from the host.

Description

A flaw was found in the way libcurl matched domains associated with cookies. This could lead to cURL sending the wrong cookie if only part of the domain name matched the domain associated with the cookie, disclosing the cookie to unrelated hosts. (CVE-2013-1944)

Affected versions prior to 7.30.0 are vulnerable.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages; the next version of cURL that fixes the issue is cURL 7.21.7.

See Also

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20130412.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 6905

Family: Web Clients

Published: 7/5/2013

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 66206

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:haxx:curl

Patch Publication Date: 6/25/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1944

BID: 59058