CVE-2020-8177

Publication date 24 June 2020

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

curl 7.20.0 through 7.70.0 is vulnerable to improper restriction of names for files and other resources that can lead too overwriting a local file when the -J flag is used.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
curl	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.1
	19.10 eoan	Fixed 7.65.3-1ubuntu3.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.9
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.15
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm4 Ubuntu Pro

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Notes

mdeslaur

introduced in 7.20.0

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H