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

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 478581

Description

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

- An allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability exists in curl <v7.88.0 based on the
"chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a server response can be compressed multiple times and
potentially with differentalgorithms. The number of acceptable "links" in this "decompression chain"
wascapped, but the cap was implemented on a per-header basis allowing a maliciousserver to insert a
virtually unlimited number of compression steps simply byusing many headers. The use of such a
decompression chain could result in a "malloc bomb", making curl end up spending enormous amounts of
allocated heap memory, or trying to and returning out of memory errors. (CVE-2023-23916)

Solution

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 478581

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Echo Local Security Checks

Published: 11/5/2026

Updated: 11/5/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 93.13

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-23916

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: 1/5/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-23916

Detections

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