CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-3842
5.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-10-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in curl 7.20.0 through 7.21.1, when the --remote-header-name or -J option is used, allows remote servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files by using \ (backslash) as a separator of path components within the Content-disposition HTTP header.
Affected configurations
• curl curl 7.20.0
• curl curl 7.20.1
• curl curl 7.21.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20101013.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39532 Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1024583 securitytracker.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/13/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/13/4 Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/13/5 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642642 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20101013.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39532 Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1024583 securitytracker.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/13/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/13/4 Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/13/5 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642642 bugzilla.redhat.com