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Curl 8.6.0 < 8.7.0 QUIC Certificate Check Bypass (CVE-2024-2379)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192705

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Synopsis

The remote host has a program that is affected by a certificate check bypass vulnerability.

Description

The version of Curl installed on the remote host is between 8.6.0 and prior to 8.7.0. It is, therefore, affected by a certificate check bypass vulnerability. libcurl skips the certificate verification for a QUIC connection under certain conditions, when built to use wolfSSL. If told to use an unknown/bad cipher or curve, the error path accidentally skips the verification and returns OK, thus ignoring any certificate problems.

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

Solution

Upgrade Curl to version 8.7.0 or later

See Also

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2024-2379.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192705

File Name: curl_CVE-2024-2379.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: windows, macosx, unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/29/2024

Updated: 11/15/2024

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-2379

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:haxx:curl

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Curl

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/27/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-2379

IAVA: 2024-A-0185-S