CVE-2023-46218 Affecting curl package, versions <7.74.0-1.3+deb11u11


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.07% (30th percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium
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Red Hat
5.3 medium
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SUSE
4.2 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-CURL-6100976
  • published 6 Dec 2023
  • disclosed 7 Dec 2023

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 curl to version 7.74.0-1.3+deb11u11 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream curl package and not the curl package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

This flaw allows a malicious HTTP server to set "super cookies" in curl that are then passed back to more origins than what is otherwise allowed or possible. This allows a site to set cookies that then would get sent to different and unrelated sites and domains.

It could do this by exploiting a mixed case flaw in curl's function that verifies a given cookie domain against the Public Suffix List (PSL). For example a cookie could be set with domain=co.UK when the URL used a lower case hostname curl.co.uk, even though co.uk is listed as a PSL domain.