CVE-2018-1000301

CRITICAL

curl <7.59.0 - Buffer Over-read

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

curl version curl 7.20.0 to and including curl 7.59.0 contains a CWE-126: Buffer Over-read vulnerability in denial of service that can result in curl can be tricked into reading data beyond the end of a heap based buffer used to store downloaded RTSP content.. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in curl < 7.20.0 and curl >= 7.60.0.

References (17)

Core 17
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104225
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/05/msg00010.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040931
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2018-b138.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3157
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201806-05
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4202
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3648-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3598-2/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0544
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0594

Scores

CVSS v3 9.1
EPSS 0.0271
EPSS Percentile 86.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (18)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 17.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
debian/debian_linux 7.0
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
haxx/curl 7.20.0 - 7.59.0
oracle/communications_webrtc_session_controller < 7.2
... and 8 more
Published May 24, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026