cURL up to 7.82.x HTTP Redirect insufficiently protected credentials

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in cURL up to 7.82.x. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component HTTP Redirect Handler. The manipulation leads to insufficiently protected credentials. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-27776. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in cURL up to 7.82.x (Network Utility Software). This issue affects some unknown processing of the component HTTP Redirect Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-522. The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval. Impacted is confidentiality.

The weakness was shared 06/03/2022. It is possible to read the advisory at hackerone.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-27776 since 03/23/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1552 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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.

Upgrading to version 7.83.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (236626). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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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

License

• open-source

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