CVE-2012-0036

Curl vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

16.7%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

curl and libcurl 7.2x before 7.24.0 do not properly consider special characters during extraction of a pathname from a URL, which allows remote attackers to conduct data-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by a CRLF injection attack on the (1) IMAP, (2) POP3, or (3) SMTP protocol.

Affected vendor

Curl

Affected product

Curl

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

Published

2012-04-13

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 16.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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