cURL up to 7.82.0 Redirect insufficiently protected credentials

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in cURL up to 7.82.0. Affected is an unknown function of the component Redirect Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to insufficiently protected credentials. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2022-27774. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in cURL up to 7.82.0 (Network Utility Software). This vulnerability affects an unknown code block of the component Redirect Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-522. The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality.

The weakness was presented 06/03/2022. The advisory is available at hackerone.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2022-27774 since 03/23/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1552 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 236626 (Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0142: curl (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0142)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (236626). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Type

• Network Utility Software

Name

• cURL

Version

• 7.0
• 7.1
• 7.2
• 7.3
• 7.4
• 7.5
• 7.6
• 7.7
• 7.8
• 7.9
• 7.10
• 7.11
• 7.12
• 7.13
• 7.14
• 7.15
• 7.16
• 7.17
• 7.18
• 7.19
• 7.20
• 7.21
• 7.22
• 7.23
• 7.24
• 7.25
• 7.26
• 7.27
• 7.28
• 7.29
• 7.30
• 7.31
• 7.32
• 7.33
• 7.34
• 7.35
• 7.36
• 7.37
• 7.38
• 7.39
• 7.40
• 7.41
• 7.42
• 7.43
• 7.44
• 7.45
• 7.46
• 7.47
• 7.48
• 7.49
• 7.50
• 7.51
• 7.52
• 7.53
• 7.54
• 7.55
• 7.56
• 7.57
• 7.58
• 7.59
• 7.60
• 7.61
• 7.62
• 7.63
• 7.64
• 7.65
• 7.66
• 7.67
• 7.68
• 7.69
• 7.70
• 7.71
• 7.72
• 7.73
• 7.74
• 7.75
• 7.76
• 7.77
• 7.78
• 7.79
• 7.80
• 7.81
• 7.82.0

License

• open-source

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