haxx curl CVE-2020-8284 vulnerability in Haxx and Other Products
Published on December 14, 2020

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A malicious server can use the FTP PASV response to trick curl 7.73.0 and earlier into connecting back to a given IP address and port, and this way potentially make curl extract information about services that are otherwise private and not disclosed, for example doing port scanning and service banner extractions.

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Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2020-8284 is exploitable with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. Public availability of a proof of concept (POC) exploit exists for CVE-2020-8284. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a small impact on confidentiality, a small impact on integrity and availability.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
HIGH
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
LOW
Integrity Impact:
NONE
Availability Impact:
NONE

Weakness Type

What is an Information Disclosure Vulnerability?

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

CVE-2020-8284 has been classified to as an Information Disclosure vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2020-8284

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Haxx Curl
 
Debian Linux
 
Fedora Project Fedora
 
NetApp Clustered Data Ontap
 
NetApp Hci Management Node
 
NetApp Solidfire
 
NetApp Hci Storage Node
 
Apple macOS
 
Oracle Communications Billing Revenue Management
 
Oracle Essbase
 
Oracle Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools
 
Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Policy
 
Siemens Sinec Infrastructure Network Services
 
Splunk Universal Forwarder
 

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.10%
Percentile
27.90%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.