Critical severity · published Jan 24, 2018
CVE-2018-1000005
libcurl 7.49.0 to and including 7.57.0 contains an out bounds read in code handling HTTP/2 trailers
9.1
CVSS
4.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
libcurl 7.49.0 to and including 7.57.0 contains an out bounds read in code handling HTTP/2 trailers. It was reported (https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2231) that reading an HTTP/2 trailer could mess up future trailers since the stored size was one byte less than required. The problem is that the code that creates HTTP/1-like headers from the HTTP/2 trailer data once appended a string like `:` to the target buffer, while this was recently changed to `: ` (a space was added after the colon) but the following math wasn't updated correspondingly. When accessed, the data is read out of bounds and causes either a crash or that the (too large) data gets passed to client write. This could lead to a denial-of-service situation or an information disclosure if someone has a service that echoes back or uses the trailers for something.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.6% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
LI
Libcurl · Haxx
7.49.0 through 7.57.0 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
14.04; 16.04; 17.10 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000005
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1000005
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040273
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1543
Patch
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2018-824a.html
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2231
Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3554-1/
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4098
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