Cryptographic issues in cURL and libcurl - CVE-2014-3620
Published: November 18, 2014 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41096
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3620
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 manipulate data.
cURL and libcurl before 7.38.0 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and set cookies for arbitrary sites by setting a cookie for a top-level domain.
Affected software
cURL
libcurl
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
curl
mingw-curl
libcurl
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
curl
mingw-curl
How to mitigate CVE-2014-3620
Install update from vendor's website.
curl - update to 7.37.0-7.fc21
mingw-curl - addressed in versions 7.39.0-1.el7, 7.39.0-1.fc21
mingw-curl - addressed in versions 7.39.0-1.el7, 7.39.0-1.fc21
External References
- http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20140910B.html
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10743
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00024.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3022
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69742
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031