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External Control of File Name or Path Affecting node-libcurl package, versions *

0.0
low
0
10

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 0.08% (35th percentile)
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NVD
3.7 low
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SUSE
4.5 medium
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Red Hat
3.7 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-NODELIBCURL-5933252
  • published 5 Oct 2023
  • disclosed 5 Oct 2023
  • credit w0x42
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Introduced: 5 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-38546 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-73 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for node-libcurl.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to External Control of File Name or Path via the curl_easy_duphandle function, allowing an attacker to insert cookies into a running program using this library.

When this function is used to duplicate an easy handle with cookies enabled, the cookie-enable state is also cloned. However, the actual cookies are not cloned, and if the source handle did not read any cookies from a specific file on disk, the cloned handle would store the file name as none. Subsequent use of the cloned handle that does not explicitly set a source to load cookies from would inadvertently load cookies from a file named none.

Note:

This is only exploitable if a file named none exists and is readable in the current directory of the program using libcurl and in the correct file format.

Changelog:

2023-10-04: Initial publication

2023-10-11: Published updated information, including CWE, CVSS, official references and affected versions range.