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libcurl 7.9.1 < 8.4.0 Cookie Injection

low Nessus Plugin ID 182873

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Synopsis

The remote libcurl install is affected by a cookie injection vulnerability.

Description

The version of libcurl installed on the remote host is affected by a cookie injection vulnerability. This flaw allows an attacker to insert cookies at will into a running program using libcurl, if the specific series of conditions are met.

libcurl performs transfers. In its API, an application creates 'easy handles' that are the individual handles for single transfers.

libcurl provides a function call that duplicates an easy handle called curl_easy_duphandle.

If a transfer has cookies enabled when the handle is duplicated, the cookie-enable state is also cloned - but without cloning the actual cookies. If the source handle did not read any cookies from a specific file on disk, the cloned version of the handle would instead store the file name as none (using the four ASCII letters, no quotes).

Subsequent use of the cloned handle that does not explicitly set a source to load cookies from would then inadvertently load cookies from a file named none - if such a file exists and is readable in the current directory of the program using libcurl. And if using the correct file format of course.

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

Solution

Upgrade libcurl to version 8.4.0 or later

See Also

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2023-38546.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 182873

File Name: libcurl_8_4_0_cve-2023-38546.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 10/11/2023

Updated: 10/7/2024

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38546

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:haxx:libcurl

Required KB Items: installed_sw/libcurl

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/11/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-38546

IAVA: 2023-A-0531-S