9.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.8 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
70.7%
High
Canonical Ubuntu
Jay Satiro discovered that curl incorrectly handled hostnames when using a SOCKS5 proxy. In environments where curl is configured to use a SOCKS5 proxy, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-38545) It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled cookies when an application duplicated certain handles. A local attacker could possibly create a cookie file and inject arbitrary cookies into subsequent connections. (CVE-2023-38546) Update Instructions: Run sudo pro fix USN-6429-1
to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: libcurl4-gnutls-dev – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.20 libcurl4-openssl-dev – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.20 libcurl3-gnutls – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.20 libcurl4-doc – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.20 libcurl3-nss – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.20 libcurl4-nss-dev – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.20 libcurl4 – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.20 curl – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.20 No subscription required
CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2023-38545, CVE-2023-38546.
Severity is high unless otherwise noted.
Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigations below. The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following releases:
2023-11-09: Initial vulnerability report published.
CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
---|---|---|---|
cflinuxfs4 | lt | 1.44.0 | |
jammy stemcells | lt | 1.260 | |
cf deployment | lt | 1.260 |
9.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.8 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
70.7%