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Curl < 7.19.6 Certificate Validation Bypass Vulnerability

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5130

Synopsis

The remote host may be affected by a security bypass vulnerability.

Description

The remote host is running Curl, a download client for various protocols. This version of Curl reportedly fails to properly validate the domain name in a signed CA certificate because the application stops reading the domain name when it encounters a NULL character. An attacker can exploit this by obtaining a legitimate certificate for a subdomain that contains a NULL character. This issue only affects Curl when it is compiled against OpenSSL.

Solution

Upgrade to Curl version 7.19.6

See Also

http://curl.haxx.se/PRIVOXY-FORCE/docs/adv_20090812.txt

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5130

Family: Web Clients

Published: 8/13/2009

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:haxx:curl

Patch Publication Date: 8/12/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2417

BID: 36032