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CVE-2012-0036

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Description

curl and libcurl 7.2x before 7.24.0 do not properly consider special characters during extraction of a pathname from a URL, which allows remote attackers to conduct data-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by a CRLF injection attack on the (1) IMAP, (2) POP3, or (3) SMTP protocol.

References

http://curl.haxx.se/curl-url-sanitize.patch

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20120124.html

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03360041

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/48256

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-02.xml

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2398

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:058

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51665

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032924

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773457

https://github.com/bagder/curl/commit/75ca568fa1c19de4c5358fed246686de8467c238

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03760en_us

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2012-04-13

Updated: 2018-01-10

Type: CWE-89

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: HIGH

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