The version of curl installed on the remote host is prior to 7.79.1-6. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1875 advisory.

    A vulnerability was found in curl. This issue occurs because a malicious server can serve excessive     amounts of `Set-Cookie:` headers in an HTTP response to curl, which stores all of them. This flaw leads to     a denial of service, either by mistake or by a malicious actor. (CVE-2022-32205)

    A vulnerability was found in curl. This issue occurs because the number of acceptable links in the     decompression chain was unbounded, allowing a malicious server to insert a virtually unlimited number of     compression steps. This flaw leads to a denial of service, either by mistake or by a malicious actor.
    (CVE-2022-32206)

    A vulnerability was found in curl. This issue occurs because when curl saves cookies, alt-svc, and HSTS     data to local files, it makes the operation atomic by finalizing the process with a rename from a     temporary name to the final target file name. This flaw leads to unpreserved file permissions, either by     mistake or by a malicious actor. (CVE-2022-32207)

    A vulnerability was found in curl. This issue occurs because it mishandles message verification failures     when curl does FTP transfers secured by krb5. This flaw makes it possible for a Man-in-the-middle attack     to go unnoticed and allows data injection into the client. (CVE-2022-32208)

    A vulnerability found in curl. This security flaw happens when curl is used to retrieve and parse cookies     from an HTTP(S) server, where it accepts cookies using control codes (byte values below 32), and also when     cookies that contain such control codes are later sent back to an HTTP(S) server, possibly causing the     server to return a 400 response. This issue effectively allows a sister site to deny service to siblings     and cause a denial of service attack. (CVE-2022-35252)

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

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

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Amazon Linux 2 : curl (ALAS-2022-1875)

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Version 1.4 Oct 5, 2023, 4:14 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202310051614
Version 1.3 Nov 14, 2022, 9:03 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202211142103
Version 1.2 Nov 10, 2022, 3:52 AM New Plugin Feed: 202211100352