CVE-2019-1552: Improper Certificate Validation

OpenSSL has internal defaults for a directory tree where it can find a configuration file as well as certificates used for verification in TLS. This directory is most commonly referred to as OPENSSLDIR, and is configurable with the --prefix / --openssldir configuration options. For OpenSSL versio...

CVE-2019-5443: Improper Control of Generation of Code

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...