CVE-2018-14618CWE-122CWE-131

curl before version 7.61.1 is vulnerable to a buffer overrun in the NTLM authentication code

High · published September 5, 2018

CVSS v3.0
7.5
EPSS
11%
Percentile
95.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

curl before version 7.61.1 is vulnerable to a buffer overrun in the NTLM authentication code. The internal function Curl_ntlm_core_mk_nt_hash multiplies the length of the password by two (SUM) to figure out how large temporary storage area to allocate from the heap. The length value is then subsequently used to iterate over the password and generate output into the allocated storage buffer. On systems with a 32 bit size_t, the math to calculate SUM triggers an integer overflow when the password length exceeds 2GB (2^31 bytes). This integer overflow usually causes a very small buffer to actually get allocated instead of the intended very huge one, making the use of that buffer end up in a heap buffer overflow. (This bug is almost identical to CVE-2017-8816.)

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.11115 · 95.9th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow; CWE-131 · Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size
Published
2018-09-05T19:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 SEP 19:00Z
    curl before version 7.61.1 is vulnerable to a buffer overrun in the NTLM authentication code
    cvelistv5