CVE-2017-1000099
MEDIUMlibcurl - Exposure of Sensitive Information via File URL Meta-Data Feature
Title source: llmDescription
When asking to get a file from a file:// URL, libcurl provides a feature that outputs meta-data about the file using HTTP-like headers. The code doing this would send the wrong buffer to the user (stdout or the application's provide callback), which could lead to other private data from the heap to get inadvertently displayed. The wrong buffer was an uninitialized memory area allocated on the heap and if it turned out to not contain any zero byte, it would continue and display the data following that buffer in memory.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100281
Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-14
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://curl.haxx.se/0809C.patch
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039119
Vendor Advisory
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20170809C.html
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0063
EPSS Percentile
70.5%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-200
Status
published
Products (1)
haxx/libcurl
7.54.1
Published
Oct 05, 2017
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026