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

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 478504

Description

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

 - curl < 7.84.0 supports "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a serverresponse can be
 compressed multiple times and potentially with different algorithms. The number of acceptable "links" in
 this "decompression chain" was unbounded, allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited
 number of compression steps.The use of such a decompression chain could result in a "malloc bomb",
 makingcurl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying toand returning out of
 memory errors. (CVE-2022-32206)

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-2022-32206

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 478504

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 11/5/2026

Updated: 11/5/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 93.13

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-32206

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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: 6/27/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-32206