The version of curl installed on the remote host is prior to 7.79.1-6. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1875 advisory.

  - A malicious server can serve excessive amounts of `Set-Cookie:` headers in a HTTP response to curl and     curl < 7.84.0 stores all of them. A sufficiently large amount of (big) cookies make subsequent HTTP     requests to this, or other servers to which the cookies match, create requests that become larger than the     threshold that curl uses internally to avoid sending crazy large requests (1048576 bytes) and instead     returns an error.This denial state might remain for as long as the same cookies are kept, match and     haven't expired. Due to cookie matching rules, a server on `foo.example.com` can set cookies that also     would match for `bar.example.com`, making it it possible for a sister server to effectively cause a     denial of service for a sibling site on the same second level domain using this method. (CVE-2022-32205)

  - curl < 7.84.0 supports chained HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a serverresponse can be     compressed multiple times and potentially with different algorithms. The number of acceptable links in     this decompression chain was unbounded, allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited     number of compression steps.The use of such a decompression chain could result in a malloc bomb,     makingcurl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying toand returning out of     memory errors. (CVE-2022-32206)

  - When curl < 7.84.0 saves cookies, alt-svc and hsts data to local files, it makes the operation atomic by     finalizing the operation with a rename from a temporary name to the final target file name.In that rename     operation, it might accidentally *widen* the permissions for the target file, leaving the updated file     accessible to more users than intended. (CVE-2022-32207)

  - When curl < 7.84.0 does FTP transfers secured by krb5, it handles message verification failures wrongly.
    This flaw makes it possible for a Man-In-The-Middle attack to go unnoticed and even allows it to inject     data to the client. (CVE-2022-32208)

  - When curl is used to retrieve and parse cookies from a HTTP(S) server, itaccepts cookies using control     codes that when later are sent back to a HTTPserver might make the server return 400 responses.
    Effectively allowing asister site to deny service to all siblings. (CVE-2022-35252)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Amazon Linux 2 : curl (ALAS-2022-1875)

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Version 1.4 Oct 5, 2023, 4:14 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202310051614
Version 1.3 Nov 14, 2022, 9:03 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202211142103
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