CVE-2017-1000099 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Libcurl
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 26.94%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 5
Latest updateMay 17
Description
When asking to get a file from a file:// URL, libcurl provides a feature that outputs meta-data about the file using HTTP-like headers. The code doing this would send the wrong buffer to the user (stdout or the application's provide callback), which could lead to other private data from the heap to get inadvertently displayed. The wrong buffer was an uninitialized memory area allocated on the heap and if it turned out to not contain any zero byte, it would continue and display the data following…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages2 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-q937-ph5c-26qf: When asking to get a file from a file:// URL, libcurl provides a feature that outputs meta-data about the file using HTTP-like headers↗2022-05-17
OSV▶
CVE-2017-1000099: When asking to get a file from a file:// URL, libcurl provides a feature that outputs meta-data about the file using HTTP-like headers↗2017-10-05
CVEList▶
CVE-2017-1000099: When asking to get a file from a file:// URL, libcurl provides a feature that outputs meta-data about the file using HTTP-like headers↗2017-10-04