CVE-2020-8177

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-8177
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerhackerone
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-12-14 20:15:13 UTC
Updated2026-04-15 21:17:03 UTC
Descriptioncurl 7.20.0 through 7.70.0 is vulnerable to improper restriction of names for files and other resources that can lead too overwriting a local file when the -J flag is used.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 7.8 HIGH from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem Types: CWE-99 | CWE-74 | CWE-99 Resource Injection (CWE-99)

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Primary7.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
3.1ADPDECLARED7.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
3.1134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0Secondary7.8HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
2.0[email protected]Primary4.6AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Hardware Fujitsu M10-1 - All All All
Operating System Fujitsu M10-1 Firmware All All All All
Hardware Fujitsu M10-4 - All All All
Hardware Fujitsu M10-4s - All All All
Operating System Fujitsu M10-4s Firmware All All All All
Operating System Fujitsu M10-4 Firmware All All All All
Hardware Fujitsu M12-1 - All All All
Operating System Fujitsu M12-1 Firmware All All All All
Hardware Fujitsu M12-2 - All All All
Hardware Fujitsu M12-2s - All All All
Operating System Fujitsu M12-2s Firmware All All All All
Operating System Fujitsu M12-2 Firmware All All All All
Application Haxx Curl All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na Https//github.com/curl/curl affected curl 7.20.0 to and including 7.70.0 Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
curl - curl overwrite local file with -J - CVE-2020-8177 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 curl.se Vendor Advisory
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - January 2022 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
HackerOne af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 hackerone.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4881-1 curl af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 cert-portal.siemens.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
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)
  • 296071 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 27.82.1 Missing (CPUOCT2020)
  • 377267 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for curl (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0185)
  • 377396 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for curl (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0078)
  • 378137 Virtuozzo Linux Security Update for libcurl (VZLSA-2020:5002)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 770068 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 Security Update (RHSA-2021:0436)
  • 900151 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for curl 7.68.0
  • 903070 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for curl (3667)
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