vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2020-8284: CVE-2020-8284 curl: FTP PASV command response can cause curl to connect to arbitrary host (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 14, 2020
Added
May 21, 2021
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

A malicious server can use the FTP PASV response to trick curl 7.73.0 and earlier into connecting back to a given IP address and port, and this way potentially make curl extract information about services that are otherwise private and not disclosed, for example doing port scanning and service banner extractions.

Solutions

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