CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-8231
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-12-14
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
Due to use of a dangling pointer, libcurl 7.29.0 through 7.71.1 can use the wrong connection when sending data.
Affected configurations
• haxx libcurl (>= 7.29.0 <= 7.71.1)
• siemens sinec infrastructure network services (< 1.0.1.1)
• debian debian linux 10.0
• oracle communications cloud native core policy 1.14.0
• splunk universal forwarder (>= 8.2.0 < 8.2.12)
• splunk universal forwarder (>= 9.0.0 < 9.0.6)
• splunk universal forwarder 9.1.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2020-8231.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://hackerone.com/reports/948876 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-14 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4881 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2020-8231.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://hackerone.com/reports/948876 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-14 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4881 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-389290.html cert-portal.siemens.com
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html cert-portal.siemens.com