THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-1000005
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2018-1000005

Libcurl vulnerability

CVSS
9.1
EPSS
4.6%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
libcurl 7.49.0 to and including 7.57.0 contains an out bounds read in code handling HTTP/2 trailers. It was reported (https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2231) that reading an HTTP/2 trailer could mess up future trailers since the stored size was one byte less than required. The problem is that the code that creates HTTP/1-like headers from the HTTP/2 trailer data once appended a string like `:` to the target buffer, while this was recently changed to `: ` (a space was added after the colon) but the following math wasn't updated correspondingly. When accessed, the data is read out of bounds and causes either a crash or that the (too large) data gets passed to client write. This could lead to a denial-of-service situation or an information disclosure if someone has a service that echoes back or uses the trailers for something.
Affected vendor
Haxx
Affected product
Libcurl
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2018-01-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.6% 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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  • Confirm whether Haxx Libcurl is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-1000005.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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