Description
The FTP wildcard function in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a string that ends with an '[' character.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-04
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102057
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00040.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=162
Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2017-ae72.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039897
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4051
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.0075
EPSS Percentile
73.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-125
Status
published
Products (6)
None/curl and libcurl before 7.57.0
curl and libcurl before 7.57.0
debian/debian_linux
8.0
debian/debian_linux
9.0
haxx/curl
7.21.0 - 7.56.1
haxx/libcurl
7.21.0 - 7.56.1
n/a/curl and libcurl before 7.57.0
curl and libcurl before 7.57.0
Published
Nov 29, 2017
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026