CVE-2020-8285 vulnerability in Haxx and Other Products
Published on December 14, 2020
curl 7.21.0 to and including 7.73.0 is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion due to a stack overflow issue in FTP wildcard match parsing.
Weakness Type
What is a Stack Exhaustion Vulnerability?
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion which takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
CVE-2020-8285 has been classified to as a Stack Exhaustion vulnerability or weakness.
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Exploit Probability
EPSS
0.74%
Percentile
72.63%
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