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cURL/libcURL GSS/Negotiate Feature Spoofing

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 6904

Synopsis

The cURL program is a library and command-line tool for transferring data using various protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and LDAP. A vulnerable version of cURL was detected from the host.

Description

It was reported that the application always performs credential delegation when authenticating with GSSAPI. A rouge server could use this flaw to obtain the client's credentials and impersonate that client to other servers that are using GSSAPI. (CVE-2011-2192)

Affected versions include versions 7.10.6 through 7.21.6.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages; the next version of cURL that fixes the issue is cURL 7.21.7.

See Also

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20110623.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 6904

Family: Web Clients

Published: 7/3/2013

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 55515

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:curl:curl

Patch Publication Date: 6/24/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/24/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2192

BID: 48434