The version of curl installed on the remote host is prior to 7.61.1-12.101. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2022-1646 advisory.

  - An improper authentication vulnerability exists in curl 7.33.0 to and including 7.82.0 which might allow     reuse OAUTH2-authenticated connections without properly making sure that the connection was authenticated     with the same credentials as set for this transfer. This affects SASL-enabled protocols: SMPTP(S),     IMAP(S), POP3(S) and LDAP(S) (openldap only). (CVE-2022-22576)

  - An insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability exists in curl 4.9 to and include curl 7.82.0 are     affected that could allow an attacker to extract credentials when follows HTTP(S) redirects is used with     authentication could leak credentials to other services that exist on different protocols or port numbers.
    (CVE-2022-27774)

  - A insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability in fixed in curl 7.83.0 might leak authentication or     cookie header data on HTTP redirects to the same host but another port number. (CVE-2022-27776)

  - libcurl provides the `CURLOPT_CERTINFO` option to allow applications torequest details to be returned     about a server's certificate chain.Due to an erroneous function, a malicious server could make libcurl     built withNSS get stuck in a never-ending busy-loop when trying to retrieve thatinformation.
    (CVE-2022-27781)

  - libcurl would reuse a previously created connection even when a TLS or SSHrelated option had been changed     that should have prohibited reuse.libcurl keeps previously used connections in a connection pool for     subsequenttransfers to reuse if one of them matches the setup. However, several TLS andSSH settings were     left out from the configuration match checks, making themmatch too easily. (CVE-2022-27782)

  - 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 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.

Detections

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Amazon Linux AMI : curl (ALAS-2022-1646)

high Nessus Plugin ID 168600

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Version 1.5 Sep 15, 2023, 4:16 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") 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") Plugin Feed: 202309151616
Version 1.4 Dec 29, 2022, 11:58 AM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202212291158
Version 1.3 Dec 10, 2022, 5:44 PM Reference Plugin Feed: 202212101744
Version 1.2 Dec 10, 2022, 1:49 PM New Plugin Feed: 202212101349