Vulnerability · Published Jul 7, 2022 · Assigned by hackerone

CVE-2022-32208

Medium 5.9

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in https://github.com/curl/curl. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 8.4% (higher than 95% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.9Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)8.4%top 5.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

When curl < 7.84.0 does FTP transfers secured by krb5, it handles message verification failures wrongly. This flaw makes it possible for a Man-In-The-Middle attack to go unnoticed and even allows it to inject data to the client.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8curl7.61.1-22.el8_6.4ALSA-2022:6159
AlmaLinux:9curl7.76.1-14.el9_0.5ALSA-2022:6157
AlmaLinux:9curl-minimal7.76.1-14.el9_0.5ALSA-2022:6157
AlmaLinux:8libcurl7.61.1-22.el8_6.4ALSA-2022:6159
AlmaLinux:9libcurl7.76.1-14.el9_0.5ALSA-2022:6157
AlmaLinux:8libcurl-devel7.61.1-22.el8_6.4ALSA-2022:6159
AlmaLinux:9libcurl-devel7.76.1-14.el9_0.5ALSA-2022:6157
AlmaLinux:8libcurl-minimal7.61.1-22.el8_6.4ALSA-2022:6159
AlmaLinux:9libcurl-minimal7.76.1-14.el9_0.5ALSA-2022:6157
Alpine:v3.20curl7.84.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-32208
Alpine:v3.21curl7.84.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-32208
Alpine:v3.22curl7.84.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-32208
Alpine:v3.23curl7.84.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-32208
Alpine:v3.24curl7.84.0-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-32208
Debian:12curl7.84.0-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-32208
Debian:13curl7.84.0-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-32208
Debian:14curl7.84.0-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-32208
Rocky Linux:8curl0:7.61.1-22.el8_6.4RLSA-2022:6159
Rocky Linux:9curl0:7.76.1-14.el9_0.5RLSA-2022:6157
Ubuntu:22.04:LTScurl7.81.0-1ubuntu1.3USN-5495-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTScurl7.81.0-1ubuntu1.3UBUNTU-CVE-2022-32208

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a https://github.com/curl/curl Fixed in 7.84.0

Weakness: CWE-840 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References