Information disclosure in cURL - CVE-2013-1944
Published: April 30, 2013 / Updated: August 3, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33107
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-2013-1944
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The tailMatch function in cookie.c in cURL and libcurl before 7.30.0 does not properly match the path domain when sending cookies, which allows remote attackers to steal cookies via a matching suffix in the domain of a URL. Per http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1801-1/ "A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.10 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Ubuntu 11.10 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Ubuntu 8.04 LTS"
Affected software
cURL
Amazon Linux AMI
curl (Alpine package)
Amazon Linux AMI
curl (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2013-1944
Install update from vendor's website.
cURL - update to 7.30.0
curl (Alpine package) - update to 7.24.0-r1
curl (Alpine package) - update to 7.24.0-r1
External References
- http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20130412.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00004.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102056.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102711.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104207.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104598.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105539.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106606.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00016.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0771.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/53044
- http://secunia.com/advisories/53051
- http://secunia.com/advisories/53097
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2660
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:151
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/92316
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59058
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1801-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950577
- https://github.com/bagder/curl/commit/2eb8dcf26cb37f09cffe26909a646e702dbcab66
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0121