Google: net-misc/curl: security update to 17109.0.0

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 452603

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- An insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability exists in curl 4.9 to and include curl 7.82.0 are
affected that could allow an attacker to extract credentials when follows HTTP(S) redirects is used with
authentication could leak credentials to other services that exist on different protocols or port numbers.
(CVE-2022-27774)

Solution

Update the net-misc/curl library and its related packages to version 17109.0.0 or later.

See Also

https://storage.googleapis.com/cos-oval-vulnerability-feed/cos-101.oval.xml.tar.gz

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 452603

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.93

Vendor

Vendor Severity: LOW

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-27774

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.7

Temporal Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/28/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-27774