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Echo: curl-7.69.1: security update to 7.69.1+e2curl-8.1.1: security update to 8.1.1+e2

low Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 478573

Description

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

 - This flaw allows an attacker to insert cookies at will into a running program using libcurl, if the
 specific series of conditions are met. libcurl performs transfers. In its API, an application creates
 "easy handles" that are the individual handles for single transfers. libcurl provides a function call that
 duplicates en easy handle called
 [curl_easy_duphandle](https://curl.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_duphandle.html). If a transfer has cookies
 enabled when the handle is duplicated, the cookie-enable state is also cloned - but without cloning the
 actual cookies. If the source handle did not read any cookies from a specific file on disk, the cloned
 version of the handle would instead store the file name as `none` (using the four ASCII letters, no
 quotes). Subsequent use of the cloned handle that does not explicitly set a source to load cookies from
 would then inadvertently load cookies from a file named `none` - if such a file exists and is readable in
 the current directory of the program using libcurl. And if using the correct file format of course.
 (CVE-2023-38546)

Solution

Update the curl-7.69.1 library and its related packages to version 7.69.1+e2 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2023-38546

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 478573

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 11/5/2026

Updated: 11/5/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.9

Percentile: 52.71

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38546

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-38546