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CVE-2023-38546

LOW
3.7CVSS
Published: 2023-10-18
Updated: 2025-11-04
AI Analysis

Description

This flaw allows an attacker to insert cookies at will into a running program using libcurl, if the specific series of conditions are met. libcurl performs transfers. In its API, an application creates "easy handles" that are the individual handles for single transfers. libcurl provides a function call that duplicates en easy handle called [curl_easy_duphandle](https://curl.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_duphandle.html). If a transfer has cookies enabled when the handle is duplicated, the cookie-enable state is also cloned - but without cloning the actual cookies. If the source handle did not read any cookies from a specific file on disk, the cloned version of the handle would instead store the file name as `none` (using the four ASCII letters, no quotes). Subsequent use of the cloned handle that does not explicitly set a source to load cookies from would then inadvertently load cookies from a file named `none` - if such a file exists and is readable in the current directory of the program using libcurl. And if using the correct file format of course.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
high
Privileges
none
User Action
none
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
none
Integrity
low
Availability
none
Weaknesses
NVD-CWE-noinfo

Metadata

Primary Vendor
HAXX
Published
10/18/2023
Last Modified
11/4/2025
Source
NIST NVD
Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.

Affected Products

haxx : libcurl

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