This flaw allows an attacker to insert cookies at will into a running program using libcurl, if the specific series of conditions are met.
libcurl performs transfers. In its API, an application creates "easy handles" that are the individual handles for single transfers.
libcurl provides a function call that duplicates en easy handle called [curl_easy_duphandle](https://curl.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_duphandle.html).
If a transfer has cookies enabled when the handle is duplicated, the cookie-enable state is also cloned - but without cloning the actual cookies. If the source handle did not read any cookies from a specific file on disk, the cloned version of the handle would instead store the file name as `none` (using the four ASCII letters, no quotes).
Subsequent use of the cloned handle that does not explicitly set a source to load cookies from would then inadvertently load cookies from a file named `none` - if such a file exists and is readable in the current directory of the program using libcurl. And if using the correct file format of course.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 3.7
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alma_linux | — | Upgrade libcurl-minimalUpgrade curlUpgrade libcurlUpgrade curl-minimalUpgrade libcurl-devel | Oct 18, 2023 | Oct 17, 2023 |
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade curl | Aug 22, 2024 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Amazon Linux Ami 2 | — | Upgrade libcurlUpgrade curl-debuginfoUpgrade curlUpgrade ecs-service-connect-agentUpgrade libcurl-devel | Oct 12, 2023 | Oct 12, 2023 |
| Amazon_linux_2023 | — | Upgrade curl-debugsourceUpgrade curlUpgrade libcurl-develUpgrade ecs-service-connect-agentUpgrade libcurl-debuginfoUpgrade curl-debuginfoUpgrade libcurl-minimal-debuginfoUpgrade curl-minimal-debuginfoUpgrade libcurl-minimalUpgrade curl-minimalUpgrade libcurl | Feb 17, 2025 | Oct 11, 2023 |
| Apple Osx Accessibility | — | — | Oct 14, 2024 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Apple Osx Accounts | — | — | Oct 14, 2024 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Apple Osx Appleevents | — | — | Oct 14, 2024 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Apple Osx Applegraphicscontrol | — | — | Oct 14, 2024 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Apple Osx Appleva | — | — | Oct 14, 2024 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Apple Osx Archiveutility | — | — | Oct 14, 2024 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Apple Osx Assets | — | — | Oct 14, 2024 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Apple Osx Avevideoencoder | — | — | Oct 14, 2024 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Apple Osx Bluetooth | — | — | Oct 14, 2024 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Apple Osx Coremediaplayback | — | — | Oct 14, 2024 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Apple Osx Coreservices | — | — | Oct 14, 2024 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Apple Osx Curl | — | Upgrade macOS to the latest version | Jan 23, 2024 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Arch Linux | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Arch Linux | Jul 11, 2025 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Centos_linux | — | — | Nov 1, 2023 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade curl | Oct 12, 2023 | Oct 12, 2023 |
| Fortios | — | Upgrade to the latest version of FortiOS | Jul 2, 2026 | Nov 14, 2023 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade net-misc/curl. | Oct 12, 2023 | Oct 11, 2023 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp10 | — | Upgrade curlUpgrade libcurl | Jan 10, 2024 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp11 | — | Upgrade curlUpgrade libcurl | Jan 10, 2024 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp5 | — | Upgrade curlUpgrade libcurlUpgrade libcurl-devel | Feb 12, 2024 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp8 | — | Upgrade libcurlUpgrade libcurl-develUpgrade curl | Mar 13, 2024 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp9 | — | Upgrade curlUpgrade libcurl | Jan 10, 2024 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Ibm Aix | — | Apply the fix or workaround for curl_advisory3 | Dec 19, 2023 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Nutanix Ahv | — | Upgrade Nutanix AHV to the latest version | Jun 5, 2026 | Sep 10, 2024 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade libcurl-minimalUpgrade libcurlUpgrade curlUpgrade curl-minimalUpgrade libcurl-devel | Oct 19, 2023 | Oct 11, 2023 |
| Redhat_linux | — | No solution existsUpgrade curl-minimalUpgrade libcurl-minimal-debuginfoUpgrade libcurl-minimalUpgrade libcurl-debuginfoUpgrade curl-debuginfoUpgrade libcurlUpgrade curl-debugsourceUpgrade libcurl-develUpgrade curlUpgrade curl-minimal-debuginfo | Nov 1, 2023 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Rocky_linux | — | Upgrade libcurlUpgrade curl-debugsourceUpgrade curlUpgrade curl-debuginfoUpgrade libcurl-develUpgrade libcurl-debuginfoUpgrade libcurl-minimalUpgrade libcurl-minimal-debuginfo | Mar 5, 2024 | Oct 18, 2023 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade libcurl-develUpgrade libcurl4Upgrade curlUpgrade libcurl4-32bitUpgrade libcurl-devel-32bit | Oct 12, 2023 | Oct 11, 2023 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade libcurl4Upgrade curlUpgrade libcurl4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libcurl3-gnutlsUpgrade libcurl3-nssUpgrade curl (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libcurl3 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libcurl3-nss (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libcurl3-gnutls (Ubuntu Pro) | Oct 12, 2023 | Oct 11, 2023 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Jan 20, 2025 | Oct 18, 2023 |
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