vulnerability

IBM AIX: curl_advisory2 (CVE-2023-27538): Security vulnerabilities in cURL for AIX

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Mar 30, 2023
Added
Jul 27, 2023
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in libcurl prior to v8.0.0 where it reuses a previously established SSH connection despite the fact that an SSH option was modified, which should have prevented reuse. libcurl maintains a pool of previously used connections to reuse them for subsequent transfers if the configurations match. However, two SSH settings were omitted from the configuration check, allowing them to match easily, potentially leading to the reuse of an inappropriate connection.

Solution

ibm-aix-curl_advisory2
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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