cURL up to 7.83.x Cookie behavioral workflow

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in cURL up to 7.83.x. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Cookie Handler. The manipulation results in behavioral workflow. This vulnerability was named CVE-2022-32207. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in cURL up to 7.83.x (Network Utility Software). Affected is an unknown functionality of the component Cookie Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a behavioral workflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-841. The product supports a session in which more than one behavior must be performed by an actor, but it does not properly ensure that the actor performs the behaviors in the required sequence. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

When curl < 7.84.0 saves cookies, alt-svc and hsts data to local files, it makes the operation atomic by finalizing the operation with a rename from a temporary name to the final target file name.In that rename operation, it might accidentally *widen* the permissions for the target file, leaving the updated file accessible to more users than intended.

The weakness was presented 07/07/2022. The advisory is available at hackerone.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-32207 since 06/01/2022. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 7.84.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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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
• 7.83

License

• open-source

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