Security Bulletin: Curl vulnerabilities CVE-2019-5443 impacts IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server, IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Client, IBM Aspera Desktop Client 3.9.1 and earlier

Summary

Curl vulnerabilities CVE-2019-5443 impacts IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server, IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Client, IBM Aspera Desktop Client 3.9.1 and earlier. The fix was delivered in version 3.9.3.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-5443
**DESCRIPTION:**A non-privileged user or program can put code and a config file in a known non-privileged path (under C:/usr/local/) that will make curl <= 7.65.1 automatically run the code (as an openssl “engine”) on invocation. If that curl is invoked by a privileged user it can do anything it wants.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/162844 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

The fix is delivered in version 3.9.6 of

IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server,

IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Client,

IBM Aspera Desktop Client

Workarounds and Mitigations

None