Vulnerability Details CVE-2018-0500
Curl_smtp_escape_eob in lib/smtp.c in curl 7.54.1 to and including curl 7.60.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow that might be exploitable by an attacker who can control the data that curl transmits over SMTP with certain settings (i.e., use of a nonstandard --limit-rate argument or CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE value).
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.014
EPSS Ranking 79.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.8
CVSS v2 Score 7.5
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041280
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2018-70a2.html
- https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/ba1dbd78e5f1ed67c1b8d37ac89d90e5e330b628
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-04
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3710-1/
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041280
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2018-70a2.html
- https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/ba1dbd78e5f1ed67c1b8d37ac89d90e5e330b628
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201807-04
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3710-1/
Products affected by CVE-2018-0500
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.54.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.55.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.55.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.56.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.56.1
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.57.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.58.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.59.0
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cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.60.0
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04