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cURL/libcURL 7.x < 7.35.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 8178

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

Versions of cURL/libcURL older than 7.35.0 are unpatched for the following vulnerabilities:

 - Security-bypass vulnerability because recent authenticated connections are allowed to be re-used, which an attacker can leverage to perform certain operations with the credentials of a recently authenticated user. (CVE-2014-0138)

 - SSL certificate validation error wherein an IP address containing wildcard characters within the Common Name field is not properly validated; this can be leveraged for man-in-the-middle attacks or trusted server impersonation. (CVE-2014-0139)

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages; the next version of cURL/libcURL that fixes the issue is cURL 7.35.0.

See Also

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20140326B.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 8178

Family: Web Clients

Published: 3/31/2014

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:haxx:curl

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/26/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0138, CVE-2014-0139

BID: 66457, 66458