CVE-2023-46218

This flaw allows a malicious HTTP server to set "super cookies" in curl that are then passed back to more origins than what is otherwise allowed or possible

Medium · published December 7, 2023

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
2%
Percentile
76.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

This flaw allows a malicious HTTP server to set "super cookies" in curl that

are then passed back to more origins than what is otherwise allowed or

possible. This allows a site to set cookies that then would get sent to

different and unrelated sites and domains.

It could do this by exploiting a mixed case flaw in curl's function that

verifies a given cookie domain against the Public Suffix List (PSL). For

example a cookie could be set with `domain=co.UK` when the URL used a lower

case hostname `curl.co.uk`, even though `co.uk` is listed as a PSL domain.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01685 · 76.8th percentile
Published
2023-12-07T01:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 DEC 01:10Z
    This flaw allows a malicious HTTP server to set "super cookies" in curl that are then passed back to more origins than what is otherwise allowed or possible
    cvelistv5