Cryptographic issues in cURL - CVE-2014-0139
Published: April 15, 2014 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32553
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-2014-0139
CWE-ID: CWE-310
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.
cURL and libcurl 7.1 before 7.36.0, when using the OpenSSL, axtls, qsossl or gskit libraries for TLS, recognize a wildcard IP address in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority.
Affected software
cURL
Gentoo Linux
curl (Alpine package)
Gentoo Linux
curl (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2014-0139
Install update from vendor's website.
cURL - update to 7.36.0
curl (Alpine package) - update to 7.25.0-r4
curl (Alpine package) - update to 7.25.0-r4
External References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0165.html
- http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20140326B.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-04/msg00042.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57836
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57966
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57968
- http://secunia.com/advisories/58615
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59458
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2902
- http://www.getchef.com/blog/2014/04/09/chef-server-11-0-12-release/
- http://www.getchef.com/blog/2014/04/09/enterprise-chef-11-1-3-release/
- http://www.getchef.com/blog/2014/04/09/enterprise-chef-1-4-9-release/
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:213
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2167-1
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21675820
- http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-5095862