Cryptographic issues in cURL and libcurl - CVE-2014-3613
Published: November 18, 2014 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41097
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-2014-3613
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 does not properly handle IP addresses in cookie domain names, which allows remote attackers to set cookies for or send arbitrary cookies to certain sites, as demonstrated by a site at 192.168.0.1 setting cookies for a site at 127.168.0.1.
Affected software
cURL
libcurl
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
curl
mingw-curl
libcurl
Amazon Linux AMI
Fedora
curl
mingw-curl
How to mitigate CVE-2014-3613
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_20140910A.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://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1254.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3022
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69748
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031