CVE-2023-27534
HIGHcurl < 8.0.0 - Path Traversal via SFTP Tilde Character Handling
Title source: llmDescription
A path traversal vulnerability exists in curl <8.0.0 SFTP implementation causes the tilde (~) character to be wrongly replaced when used as a prefix in the first path element, in addition to its intended use as the first element to indicate a path relative to the user's home directory. Attackers can exploit this flaw to bypass filtering or execute arbitrary code by crafting a path like /~2/foo while accessing a server with a specific user.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://hackerone.com/reports/1892351
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230420-0012/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/36NBD5YLJXXEDZLDGNFCERWRYJQ6LAQW/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-12
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00016.html
Scores
CVSS v3
8.8
EPSS
0.0006
EPSS Percentile
19.9%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-22
Status
published
Products (10)
broadcom/brocade_fabric_operating_system_firmware
fedoraproject/fedora
36
haxx/curl
7.18.0 - 7.88.1
netapp/active_iq_unified_manager
netapp/h300s_firmware
netapp/h410s_firmware
netapp/h500s_firmware
netapp/h700s_firmware
splunk/universal_forwarder
9.1.0
splunk/universal_forwarder
8.2.0 - 8.2.12
Published
Mar 30, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026