Ubuntu Linux - wcurl path traversal with percent-encoded slashes

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-1317 advisory.

    wcurl path traversal with percent-encoded slashes

    URLs containing percent-encoded slashes (/ or \) can trick wcurl into saving the output file outside of     the current directory without the user explicitly asking for it. (CVE-2025-11563)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of curl installed on the remote host is prior to 8.3.0-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-3088 advisory.

    wcurl path traversal with percent-encoded slashes

    URLs containing percent-encoded slashes (/ or \) can trick wcurl into saving the output file outside of     the current directory without the user explicitly asking for it. (CVE-2025-11563)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:4300-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2025-11563: Fixed wcurl path traversal with percent-encoded slashes (bsc#1253757)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2025-20090-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2025-9086: Fixed Out of bounds read for cookie path (bsc#1249191)
    - CVE-2025-11563: Fixed wcurl path traversal with percent-encoded slashes (bsc#1253757)
    - CVE-2025-10148: Fixed predictable WebSocket mask (bsc#1249348)

    Other fixes:
    - tool_operate: fix return code when --retry is used but not       triggered (bsc#1249367)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:4236-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2025-11563: Fixed wcurl path traversal with percent-encoded slashes (bsc#1253757)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of wcurl installed on the remote host is prior to 2025.11.04. It is, therefore, affected by a path traversal vulnerability when the URL contains a percent-encoded slash.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Ubuntu Linux - wcurl path traversal with percent-encoded slashes (CVE-2025-11563)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
277810	Amazon Linux 2023 : curl, curl-minimal, libcurl (ALAS2023-2025-1317)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
277769	Amazon Linux 2 : curl, --advisory ALAS2-2025-3088 (ALAS-2025-3088)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
277251	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : curl (SUSE-SU-2025:4300-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
277017	openSUSE 16 Security Update : curl (openSUSE-SU-2025-20090-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
276906	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : curl (SUSE-SU-2025:4236-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
274434	wcurl 2024.12.08 < 2025.11.04 Path Traversal	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high
272263	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-11563	Nessus	Misc.	high

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