CVE-2020-8231

high

Description

Due to use of a dangling pointer, libcurl 7.29.0 through 7.71.1 can use the wrong connection when sending data.

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4881

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-14

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

https://hackerone.com/reports/948876

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2020-8231.html

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-12-14

Updated: 2024-03-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High