6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
43.8%
An allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability exists in curl <v7.88.0 based on the “chained” HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a server response can be compressed multiple times and potentially with differentalgorithms. The number of acceptable “links” in this “decompression chain” wascapped, but the cap was implemented on a per-header basis allowing a maliciousserver to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps simply byusing many headers. The use of such a decompression chain could result in a “malloc bomb”, making curl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying to and returning out of memory errors.
[
{
"vendor": "n/a",
"product": "https://github.com/curl/curl",
"versions": [
{
"version": "Fixed in 7.88.0",
"status": "affected"
}
]
}
]
hackerone.com/reports/1826048
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00035.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BQKE6TXYDHOTFHLTBZ5X73GTKI7II5KO/
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-12
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230309-0006/
www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5365
6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
43.8%