CVE-2017-1000101Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Curl

Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.1
EPSS
0.8%
top 26.59%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 5
Latest updateMay 14

Description

curl supports "globbing" of URLs, in which a user can pass a numerical range to have the tool iterate over those numbers to do a sequence of transfers. In the globbing function that parses the numerical range, there was an omission that made curl read a byte beyond the end of the URL if given a carefully crafted, or just wrongly written, URL. The URL is stored in a heap based buffer, so it could then be made to wrongly read something else instead of crashing. An example of a URL that triggers th

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 Packages3 packages

Debianhaxx/curl< 7.55.0-1+3
Ubuntuhaxx/curl< 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.11+1
NVDhaxx/curl32 versions+31

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-qxxx-25g2-qj92: curl supports "globbing" of URLs, in which a user can pass a numerical range to have the tool iterate over those numbers to do a sequence of transfers2022-05-14
OSV
curl vulnerabilities2017-10-10
OSV
CVE-2017-1000101: curl supports "globbing" of URLs, in which a user can pass a numerical range to have the tool iterate over those numbers to do a sequence of transfers2017-10-05
CVEList
CVE-2017-1000101: curl supports "globbing" of URLs, in which a user can pass a numerical range to have the tool iterate over those numbers to do a sequence of transfers2017-10-04

📋Vendor Advisories

5
Apple
CVE-2017-1000101: macOS High Sierra 10.13.1, Security Update 2017-001 Sierra, and Security Update 2017-004 El Capitan2017-10-31
Ubuntu
curl vulnerabilities2017-10-23
Ubuntu
curl vulnerabilities2017-10-10
Red Hat
curl: URL globbing out of bounds read2017-08-09
Debian
CVE-2017-1000101: curl - curl supports "globbing" of URLs, in which a user can pass a numerical range to ...2017

💬Community

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HackerOne
CVE-2017-1000101: cURL: URL globbing out of bounds read2018-05-16
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-1000100 CVE-2017-1000101 mingw-curl: various flaws [epel-7]2017-08-09
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-1000099 CVE-2017-1000100 CVE-2017-1000101 curl: various flaws [fedora-all]2017-08-09
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-1000099 CVE-2017-1000100 CVE-2017-1000101 mingw-curl: various flaws [fedora-all]2017-08-09
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-1000101 curl: URL globbing out of bounds read2017-08-04
CVE-2017-1000101 — Haxx Curl vulnerability | cvebase