haxx libcurl CVE-2020-8285 vulnerability in Haxx and Other Products
Published on December 14, 2020

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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.

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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%

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.