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Curl 7.41.0 < 8.10.0 Security Bypass (CVE-2024-8096)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 207231

Synopsis

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

Description

The version of Curl installed on the remote host is between 7.41.0 prior to 8.10.0. It is, therefore, affected by a security bypass vulnerability. When curl is told to use the Certificate Status Request TLS extension, often referred to as OCSP stapling, to verify that the server certificate is valid, it might fail to detect some OCSP problems and instead wrongly consider the response as fine. If the returned status reports another error than 'revoked' (like for example 'unauthorized') it is not treated as a bad certficate.

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 8.10.0 or later

See Also

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2024-8096.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 207231

File Name: curl_CVE-2024-8096.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: windows, macosx, unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 9/13/2024

Updated: 9/13/2024

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8096

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:haxx:curl

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Curl

Patch Publication Date: 9/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-8096

IAVA: 2024-A-0571