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CVE-2020-8169

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Date: December 14, 2020

curl 7.62.0 through 7.70.0 is vulnerable to an information disclosure vulnerability that can lead to a partial password being leaked over the network and to the DNS server(s).

Language: C

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (11)

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-8169

Url: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-8169

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4881

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8169

Url: https://hackerone.com/reports/874778

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8169

Url: https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2020-8169.html

Url: https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-200951.pdf

Url: https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf

Url: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/600a8cded447cd7118ed50142c576567c0cf5158

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-8169

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Information Leak / Disclosure

CWE-200

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version curl-7_71_0

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE
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