CVE-2012-0036
HIGHEPSS 97th pctlDescription
curl and libcurl 7.2x before 7.24.0 do not properly consider special characters during extraction of a pathname from a URL, which allows remote attackers to conduct data-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by a CRLF injection attack on the (1) IMAP, (2) POP3, or (3) SMTP protocol.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 97% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://curl.haxx.se/curl-url-sanitize.patch
- http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20120124.html
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03360041
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48256
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-02.xml
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2398
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:058
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51665
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032924
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773457
- https://github.com/bagder/curl/commit/75ca568fa1c19de4c5358fed246686de8467c238
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03760en_us
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