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Vulnerability · Published Mar 27, 2024 · Assigned by curl

CVE-2024-2379QUIC certificate check bypass with wolfSSL

Medium 6.3

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in curl from curl. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.9% (higher than 79% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.9%top 20.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

libcurl skips the certificate verification for a QUIC connection under certain conditions, when built to use wolfSSL. If told to use an unknown/bad cipher or curve, the error path accidentally skips the verification and returns OK, thus ignoring any certificate problems.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20curl8.7.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-2379
Alpine:v3.21curl8.7.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-2379
Alpine:v3.22curl8.7.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-2379
Alpine:v3.23curl8.7.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-2379
Alpine:v3.24curl8.7.1-r0ALPINE-CVE-2024-2379
Debian:12curlno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2024-2379
Debian:13curl8.7.1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-2379
Debian:14curl8.7.1-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-2379

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
curl curl 8.6.0 – through 8.6.0

References