CVE-2020-8169

Summary

CVECVE-2020-8169
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-12-14 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2024-03-27 16:04:00 UTC
Descriptioncurl 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).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-200

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Application Haxx Curl All All All All
Hardware Siemens Simatic Tim 1531 Irc - All All All
Operating System Siemens Simatic Tim 1531 Irc Firmware All All All All
Application Siemens Sinec Infrastructure Network Services All All All All
Application Splunk Universal Forwarder All All All All
Application Splunk Universal Forwarder 9.1.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
HackerOne MISC hackerone.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4881-1 curl DEBIAN www.debian.org
cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf CONFIRM cert-portal.siemens.com
curl - Partial password leak over DNS on HTTP redirect - CVE-2020-8169 MISC curl.se Vendor Advisory
cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-200951.pdf CONFIRM cert-portal.siemens.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 12304 McAfee Web Gateway Product Multiple Vulnerabilities (WP-2326,WP-3443)
  • 178522 Debian Security Update for curl (DSA 4881-1)
  • 239451 Red Hat Update for Red Hat JBoss Core Services Apache HTTP Server 2.4.37 SP8 (RHSA-2021:2472)
  • 378599 Splunk Enterprise Third Party Package Updates for June (SVD-2023-0613)
  • 378883 Splunk Enterprise August Third Party Package Updates (SVD-2023-0808)
  • 500130 Alpine Linux Security Update for curl
  • 501394 Alpine Linux Security Update for curl
  • 503886 Alpine Linux Security Update for curl
  • 590737 Siemens SIMATIC TIM libcurl Multiple Vulnerabilities (ICSA-21-159-10)
  • 590738 Siemens Industrial Products LLDP Multiple Vulnerabilities (ICSA-21-194-07)
  • 591406 Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU GNU/Linux subsystem Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSB-439005, ICSA-22-104-13)
  • 690508 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for curl (6bff5ca6-b61a-11ea-aef4-08002728f74c)
  • 900153 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for curl 7.68.0
  • 902941 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for curl (3664)
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