CVE-2014-0138

Curl vulnerability

CVSS

6.4

EPSS

5.1%

EPSS pct

91th

Exploited

No known

The default configuration in cURL and libcurl 7.10.6 before 7.36.0 re-uses (1) SCP, (2) SFTP, (3) POP3, (4) POP3S, (5) IMAP, (6) IMAPS, (7) SMTP, (8) SMTPS, (9) LDAP, and (10) LDAPS connections, which might allow context-dependent attackers to connect as other users via a request, a similar issue to CVE-2014-0015.

Affected vendor

Haxx

Affected product

Curl

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

Published

2014-04-15

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.

Its EPSS score of 5.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

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