CVE-2023-27538CWE-287CWE-305

CVE-2023-27538

Medium · published March 31, 2023

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
73.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in libcurl prior to v8.0.0 where it reuses a previously established SSH connection despite the fact that an SSH option was modified, which should have prevented reuse. libcurl maintains a pool of previously used connections to reuse them for subsequent transfers if the configurations match. However, two SSH settings were omitted from the configuration check, allowing them to match easily, potentially leading to the reuse of an inappropriate connection.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01451 · 73.2th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-287 · Improper Authentication; CWE-305 · Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness
Published
2023-03-31T00:15Z
Affected products (13)
ProductVersionsFixed in
haxx/libcurl≥ 7.16.1, < 8.0.08.0.0
fedoraproject/fedoraall versions—
debian/debian_linuxall versions—
netapp/active_iq_unified_managerall versions—
netapp/clustered_data_ontapall versions—
broadcom/brocade_fabric_operating_system_firmwareall versions—
netapp/h300s_firmwareall versions—
netapp/h500s_firmwareall versions—
netapp/h700s_firmwareall versions—
netapp/h410s_firmwareall versions—
splunk/universal_forwarder≥ 8.2.0, < 8.2.128.2.12
splunk/universal_forwarder≥ 9.0.0, < 9.0.69.0.6
splunk/universal_forwarderall versions—
References (11)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 MAR 00:00Z
    An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in libcurl prior to v8.0.0 where it reuses a previously established SSH connection despite the fact that an SSH…
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