Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information Affecting libcurl package, versions <0:7.88.0-1.amzn2.0.1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-LIBCURL-3343408
- published 7 Mar 2023
- disclosed 23 Feb 2023
Introduced: 23 Feb 2023
CVE-2023-23915 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 libcurl to version 0:7.88.0-1.amzn2.0.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2023-1986.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcurl package and not the libcurl package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.
See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.
A cleartext transmission of sensitive information vulnerability exists in curl <v7.88.0 that could cause HSTS functionality to behave incorrectly when multiple URLs are requested in parallel. Using its HSTS support, curl can be instructed to use HTTPS instead of using an insecure clear-text HTTP step even when HTTP is provided in the URL. This HSTS mechanism would however surprisingly fail when multiple transfers are done in parallel as the HSTS cache file gets overwritten by the most recentlycompleted transfer. A later HTTP-only transfer to the earlier host name would then not get upgraded properly to HSTS.