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CVE-2024-9681

Nov. 6, 2024, 6:17 p.m.

CVSS Score

5.9 / 10

Product(s) Impacted

curl

Description

When curl is asked to use HSTS, the expiry time for a subdomain might overwrite a parent domain's cache entry, making it end sooner or later than otherwise intended. This affects curl using applications that enable HSTS and use URLs with the insecure `HTTP://` scheme and perform transfers with hosts like `x.example.com` as well as `example.com` where the first host is a subdomain of the second host. (The HSTS cache either needs to have been populated manually or there needs to have been previous HTTPS accesses done as the cache needs to have entries for the domains involved to trigger this problem.) When `x.example.com` responds with `Strict-Transport-Security:` headers, this bug can make the subdomain's expiry timeout *bleed over* and get set for the parent domain `example.com` in curl's HSTS cache. The result of a triggered bug is that HTTP accesses to `example.com` get converted to HTTPS for a different period of time than what was asked for by the origin server. If `example.com` for example stops supporting HTTPS at its expiry time, curl might then fail to access `http://example.com` until the (wrongly set) timeout expires. This bug can also expire the parent's entry *earlier*, thus making curl inadvertently switch back to insecure HTTP earlier than otherwise intended.

Weaknesses

Date

Published: Nov. 6, 2024, 8:15 a.m.

Last Modified: Nov. 6, 2024, 6:17 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

2499f714-1537-4658-8207-48ae4bb9eae9

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score
5.9
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
Base Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS Vector String

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View Vector String

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

References

https://curl.se/ 2499f714-1537-4658-8207-48ae4bb9eae9

https://curl.se/ 2499f714-1537-4658-8207-48ae4bb9eae9

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