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CVE-2020-8285
Published:December 14, 2020
Updated:May 17, 2026
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.
Related Resources (29)
https://hackerone.com/reports/1045844
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DAEHE2S2QLO4AO4MEEYL75NB7SAH5PSL/
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212327
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NZUVSQHN2ESHMJXNQ2Z7T2EELBB5HJXG/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NZUVSQHN2ESHMJXNQ2Z7T2EELBB5HJXG/
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-8285
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212325
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Apr/51
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2020-8285.html
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-8285
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DAEHE2S2QLO4AO4MEEYL75NB7SAH5PSL/
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212326
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0007/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-14
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4881
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00029.html
https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/69a358f2186e04
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-8285
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8285
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6255
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
8.7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Out-of-bounds Write
CWE-787
Uncontrolled Recursion
CWE-674
EPSS
Base Score:
0.74