CVE-2020-8285

Public Exploit

Description

curl 7.21.0 to and including 7.73.0 is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion due to a stack overflow issue in FTP wildcard match parsing.

Category

7.5
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.32%
Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory curl.se
Affected: n/a https://github.com/curl/curl
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://hackerone.com/reports/1045844 permissions required
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6255 third party advisory exploit
https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2020-8285.html vendor advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NZUVSQHN2ESHMJXNQ2Z7T2EELBB5HJXG/ mailing list third party advisory vendor advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00029.html third party advisory mailing list
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DAEHE2S2QLO4AO4MEEYL75NB7SAH5PSL/ mailing list third party advisory vendor advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-14 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4881 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Apr/51 third party advisory mailing list
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html third party advisory patch
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0007/ third party advisory
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212325 third party advisory
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212326 third party advisory
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212327 third party advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E third party advisory mailing list
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E third party advisory mailing list
https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html third party advisory patch
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html third party advisory patch
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html third party advisory patch
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf third party advisory patch

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2020-8285?
CVE-2020-8285 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2020-8285?
To fix CVE-2020-8285, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2020-8285 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2020-8285 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
What software or system is affected by CVE-2020-8285?
CVE-2020-8285 affects n/a https://github.com/curl/curl.
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