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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-27774: Insufficiently Protected Credentials

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-27774: Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
06/01/2022
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
04/09/2024

Description

An insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability exists in curl 4.9 to and include curl 7.82.0 are affected that could allow an attacker to extract credentials when follows HTTP(S) redirects is used with authentication could leak credentials to other services that exist on different protocols or port numbers.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-curl

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