The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7540 advisory.

    The curl packages provide the libcurl library and the curl utility for downloading files from servers     using various protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and LDAP.

    Security Fix(es):

    * curl: cookie injection with none file (CVE-2023-38546)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Bug Fix(es):

    * libssh (curl sftp) not trying password auth (BZ#2240032)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

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RHEL 8 : curl (RHSA-2023:7540)

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