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OESA-2025-2319 curl security update

cURL is a computer software project providing a library libcurl and command-line tool curl for transferring data using various protocols. Security Fixes: curl contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in cookie path comparison logic. When a secure cookie is set via HTTPS and then the client is...

curl: Timing Attack Vulnerability in curl Digest Authentication via Non-Constant-Time String Comparison

Summary: A timing attack vulnerability exists in curl's Digest Authentication implementation due to the use of non-constant-time string comparison strcmp when comparing authentication algorithms in digest.c line 360. This allows attackers to determine the supported authentication algorithm throug...

idna: idna accepts Punycode labels that do not produce any non-ASCII when decoded

A flaw was found in idna crate. This vulnerability allows hostname spoofing and potential privilege escalation via specially crafted Punycode labels that render as ASCII or empty labels, leading to incorrect equality comparisons during hostname validation...

GHSA-C2FC-9Q9C-5486 Dragonfly vulnerable to timing attacks against Proxy’s basic authentication

Impact The access control mechanism for the Proxy feature uses simple string comparisons and is therefore vulnerable to timing attacks. An attacker may try to guess the password one character at a time by sending all possible characters to a vulnerable mechanism and measuring the comparison...

The vulnerability of the CompareHashAndPassword function in the Vault Enterprise and Vault Community Edition platforms for archiving corporate information allows attackers to gain unauthorized access to protected information due to timing discrepancies.

The vulnerability of the CompareHashAndPassword function in the Vault Enterprise and Vault Community Edition archiving platform for corporate information involves information disclosure due to timing mismatches. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an unauthorized actor to gain unauthorized...

GHSA-3WFH-36RX-9537 Timing Attack Vulnerability in SCRAM Authentication

Impact A timing attack vulnerability exists in the SCRAM Java implementation. The issue arises because Arrays.equals was used to compare secret values such as client proofs and server signatures. Since Arrays.equals performs a short-circuit comparison, the execution time varies depending on how...

CVE-2025-39817 efivarfs: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in efivarfs_d_compare

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: efivarfs: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in efivarfsdcompare Observed on kernel 6.6 present on master as well: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in memcmp+0x98/0xd0 Call trace: kasancheckrange+0xe8/0x190 asanloadN+0x1c/0x28 memcmp+0x98/0xd0...

PT-2025-38753

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions versions prior to 3.2 Description A timing attack issue exists in the SCRAM Java implementation due to the use of Arrays.equals for comparing sensitive values like client proofs and server signatures. Arrays.equals performs a short-circuit...

CVE-2025-8689

The Elements Plus! plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Image Comparison, HotSpot Plus, and Google Maps widgets in all versions up to, and including, 2.16.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This...

A Comparison of Selected Image Transformation Techniques for Malware Classification

Recently, a considerable amount of malware research has focused on the use of powerful image-based machine learning techniques, which generally yield impressive results. However, before image-based techniques can be applied to malware, the samples must be converted to images, and there is no...

Out-of-bounds Read

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read due to improper validation in the path comparison process. An attacker can cause a crash or override the contents of a secure cookie by setting a cookie with the secure keyword for an HTTPS site, then redirecting to t...

CVE-2025-9086

A cookie is set using the "secure" keyword for "https://target" 2. curl is redirected to or otherwise made to speak with "http://target" same hostname, but using clear text HTTP using the same cookie set 3. The same cookie name is set - but with only a slash as path "path="/"". Since this site...

CVE-2025-9086 Out of bounds read for cookie path

A cookie is set using the secure keyword for https://target 2. curl is redirected to or otherwise made to speak with http://target same hostname, but using clear text HTTP using the same cookie set 3. The same cookie name is set - but with only a slash as path path="/". Since this site is not...

CVE-2025-9086

A cookie is set using the secure keyword for https://target 2. curl is redirected to or otherwise made to speak with http://target same hostname, but using clear text HTTP using the same cookie set 3. The same cookie name is set - but with only a slash as path path="/". Since this site is not...

curl 安全漏洞

curl is a cURL open source tool for transferring data from or to a server. A security vulnerability exists in curl that stems from a heap buffer boundary read error in the path comparison logic, which could lead to a crash or a security cookie being overwritten by a plaintext site...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : curl (SUSE-SU-2025:03173-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:03173-1 advisory. - CVE-2025-9086: bug in path comparison logic when processing cookies can lead to out-of-bounds read in heap buffer bsc1249191. -...

CVE-2025-9086: Out-of-bounds Read

A cookie is set using the secure keyword for https://target 2. curl is redirected to or otherwise made to speak with http://target same hostname, but using clear text HTTP using the same cookie set 3. The same cookie name is set - but with only a slash as path path="/". Since this site is not...

CVE-2025-8689

The Elements Plus! plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Image Comparison, HotSpot Plus, and Google Maps widgets in all versions up to, and including, 2.16.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This...

CVE-2025-8689 Elements Plus! <= 2.16.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Multiple Widgets

The Elements Plus! plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Image Comparison, HotSpot Plus, and Google Maps widgets in all versions up to, and including, 2.16.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This...