High severity · published Dec 14, 2020
CVE-2020-8285
curl 7.21.0 to and including 7.73.0 is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion due to a stack overflow issue in FTP wildcard match parsing
7.5
CVSS
9.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
curl 7.21.0 to and including 7.73.0 is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion due to a stack overflow issue in FTP wildcard match parsing.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)9.8% · higher than 96% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MA
macOS · Apple
11.0 before 11.3 · source: NVD
HT
https://github.com/curl/curl ·
libcurl 7.21.0 to and including 7.73.0 · source: vendor
CD
Clustered Data Ontap · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
CB
Communications Billing And Revenue Management · Oracle
12.0.0.3.0 · source: NVD
CC
Communications Cloud Native Core Policy · Oracle
1.14.0 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
ES
Essbase · Oracle
21.2 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
32; 33 · source: NVD
HB
Hci Bootstrap OS · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
HM
Hci Management Node · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
HS
Hci Storage Node Firmware · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
LI
Libcurl · Haxx
7.21.0 before 7.74.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8285
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8285
Mailing List
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Apr/51
Patch
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf
Vendor Advisory
https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2020-8285.html
Exploit
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6255
Permissions Required
https://hackerone.com/reports/1045844
Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
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