Security Bulletin: cURL vulnerabilities CVE-2020-8169 CVE-2020-8177 impact IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server 3.9.6.2 and earlier and Aspera High-Speed Transfer Endpoint 3.9.6.2 and earlier

Summary

Security Bulletin: cURL vulnerabilities CVE-2020-8169 CVE-2020-8177 impact IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server 3.9.6.2 and earlier and Aspera High-Speed Transfer Endpoint 3.9.6.2 and earlier. The fix was delivered in IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server 4.0.0 and Aspera High-Speed Transfer Endpoint 4.0.0.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-8169
**DESCRIPTION:**cURL libcurl could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to correctly URL encode the credential data when set using an curl_easy_setopt option. The host name and partial password is leaked in cleartext over DNS on HTTP redirect. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/183930 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2020-8177
**DESCRIPTION:**cURL could allow a remote attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the system, caused by the improper handling of certain parameters when using -J (–remote-header-name) and -I (–include) in the same command line. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite a local file.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/183931 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

The fix for the vulnerability was delivered in IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server 4.0.0 and Aspera High-Speed Transfer Endpoint 4.0.0

Workarounds and Mitigations

None