SB2023110410 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support update for curl

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Improper certificate validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28321)

CWE-ID: CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper certificate validation when matching wildcards in TLS certificates for IDN names. A remote attacker crate a specially crafted certificate that will be considered trusted by the library.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that curl is built to use OpenSSL, Schannel or Gskit.

2) External control of file name or path (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-38546)

CWE-ID: CWE-73 - External Control of File Name or Path

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear

The vulnerability allows an attacker to inject arbitrary cookies into request.

The vulnerability exists due to the way cookies are handled by libcurl. If a transfer has cookies enabled when the handle is duplicated, the cookie-enable state is also cloned - but without cloning the actual cookies. If the source handle did not read any cookies from a specific file on disk, the cloned version of the handle would instead store the file name as none (using the four ASCII letters, no quotes).

Subsequent use of the cloned handle that does not explicitly set a source to load cookies from would then inadvertently load cookies from a file named none - if such a file exists and is readable in the current directory of the program using libcurl.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6292