Input validation error in cURL - CVE-2019-15601

Vulnerability identifier: #VU24338

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-15601

CWE-ID: CWE-20

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied URL. A remote attacker can pass  URL to the SMB share using the "file://" URI handler and read arbitrary files from local resources.

Example: file://localhost//hostname/home/secret.txt

Note, this issue affects Windows installations only.

cURL
Dell Data Protection Central
Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Protection
MySQL Server
MySQL Workbench
OSS Support Tools
openEuler
curl
curl-debuginfo
curl-debugsource
curl-help
libcurl
libcurl-devel

Install updates from vendor's website.

cURL - update to 7.68.0
curl - update to 7.69.1-1
curl-debuginfo - update to 7.69.1-1
curl-debugsource - update to 7.69.1-1
curl-help - update to 7.69.1-1
libcurl - update to 7.69.1-1
libcurl-devel - update to 7.69.1-1

• https://hackerone.com/reports/726117
• https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2019-15601.html

• Information disclosure in cURL for Windows
• Multiple vulnerabilities in MySQL Server
• Multiple vulnerabilities in MySQL Workbench
• Multiple vulnerabilities in OSS Support Tools
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell Data Protection Central
• openEuler 20.03 LTS update for curl-7.69.1-1