CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-27534

8.8 HIGH Published 2023-03-30 Modified 2026-10-23 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-03-30
Last modified
2026-10-23
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-22

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.

Affected configurations

• haxx curl (>= 7.18.0 <= 7.88.1) • fedoraproject fedora 36 • netapp active iq unified manager • broadcom brocade fabric operating system firmware • netapp h300s firmware • netapp h500s firmware • netapp h700s firmware • netapp h410s firmware • 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-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References