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CVE-2023-23915
published 2023-02-23

CVE-2023-23915: A cleartext transmission of sensitive information vulnerability exists in curl <v7.88.0 that could cause HSTS functionality to behave incorrectly when multiple…

medium6.5CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUINSUCLILAN
A cleartext transmission of sensitive information vulnerability exists in curl <v7.88.0 that could cause HSTS functionality to behave incorrectly when multiple URLs are requested in parallel. Using its HSTS support, curl can be instructed to use HTTPS instead of using an insecure clear-text HTTP step even when HTTP is provided in the URL. This HSTS mechanism would however surprisingly fail when multiple transfers are done in parallel as the HSTS cache file gets overwritten by the most recentlycompleted transfer. A later HTTP-only transfer to the earlier host name would then *not* get upgraded properly to HSTS.

Affected

34 ranges· showing 25
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debiancurl< curl 7.88.1-1 (bookworm)curl 7.88.1-1 (bookworm)
haxxcurl>= 0 < 7.88.1-17.88.1-1
haxxcurl>= 0 < 7.88.1-17.88.1-1
haxxcurl>= 0 < 7.88.1-17.88.1-1
haxxcurl>= 0 < 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.237.58.0-2ubuntu3.23
haxxcurl>= 0 < 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.167.68.0-1ubuntu2.16
haxxcurl>= 0 < 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.87.81.0-1ubuntu1.8
haxxcurl>= 7.77.0 < 7.88.07.88.0
httpsgithub.com_curl_curl
msrcazl3_cmake_3.21.4-10_on_azure_linux_3.0
msrcazl3_cmake_3.28.2-1_on_azure_linux_3.0
msrcazl3_rust_1.75.0-14_on_azure_linux_3.0
msrcazl3_rust_1.86.0-1_on_azure_linux_3.0
msrcazl3_tensorflow_2.11.1-1_on_azure_linux_3.0
msrcazl3_tensorflow_2.16.1-1_on_azure_linux_3.0
msrcazure_linux_3.0_arm
msrcazure_linux_3.0_x64
msrccbl2_cmake_3.21.4-5_on_cbl_mariner_2.0
msrccbl2_curl_7.88.1-1_on_cbl_mariner_2.0
msrccbl2_mysql_8.0.33-1_on_cbl_mariner_2.0
msrccbl2_rust_1.72.0-2_on_cbl_mariner_2.0
msrccbl2_tensorflow_2.11.1-2_on_cbl_mariner_2.0
msrccbl_mariner_1.0_arm
msrccbl_mariner_1.0_x64
msrccbl_mariner_2.0_arm

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
osv9.1CRITICAL