Improper Authentication in cURL - CVE-2014-0138

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Improper Authentication in cURL - CVE-2014-0138

Published: April 15, 2014 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32552
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0138
CWE-ID: CWE-287
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

The default configuration in cURL and libcurl 7.10.6 before 7.36.0 re-uses (1) SCP, (2) SFTP, (3) POP3, (4) POP3S, (5) IMAP, (6) IMAPS, (7) SMTP, (8) SMTPS, (9) LDAP, and (10) LDAPS connections, which might allow context-dependent attackers to connect as other users via a request, a similar issue to CVE-2014-0015.


Affected software

cURL
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Modular Switchgear Monitoring (MSM)
curl (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2014-0138

Install update from vendor's website.

cURL - update to 7.36.0
curl (Alpine package) - update to 7.25.0-r4

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