Description
A path traversal vulnerability exists in curl <8.0.0 SFTP implementation causes the tilde (~) character to be wrongly replaced when used as a prefix in the first path element, in addition to its intended use as the first element to indicate a path relative to the user's home directory. Attackers can exploit this flaw to bypass filtering or execute arbitrary code by crafting a path like /~2/foo while accessing a server with a specific user.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22CWE-22
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- HAXX
- Published
- 3/30/2023
- Last Modified
- 4/23/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
haxx : curlfedoraproject : fedoranetapp : active_iq_unified_managerbroadcom : brocade_fabric_operating_system_firmwarenetapp : h300s_firmwarenetapp : h500s_firmwarenetapp : h700s_firmwarenetapp : h410s_firmwaresplunk : universal_forwardersplunk : universal_forwardersplunk : universal_forwarder
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