Data manipulations vulnerability in cURL

Beschreibung

Lack of data sanitization was found in cURL command line tool for Windows. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can write arbitrary local file. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially designed file name.

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Technical details

cURL does not sanitize colons in a remote file name when options -O or -OJ is used and remote file name contains colons. This vulnerability is exploitable only on Windows cause it’s the only system which interprets colon as mark of drive letter. You can look for multiple technical details, examples and recommendations at original vendor advisory.

Ursprüngliche Informationshinweise

• Vendor advisory

CVE Liste

• CVE-2016-0754
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