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Internet Bug Bounty: CVE-2023-27535: FTP too eager connection reuse

2023-03-2007:38:58
nyymi
hackerone.com
$2400
42
ftp connection
vulnerability
libcurl
access control
bug bounty
security issue

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

51.9%

libcurl would reuse a previously created FTP connection even when one or more options had been changed that could have made the effective user a very different one, thus leading to the doing the second transfer with wrong credentials.

libcurl keeps previously used connections in a connection pool for subsequent transfers to reuse if one of them matches the setup. However, several FTP settings were left out from the configuration match checks, making them match too easily. The settings in questions are CURLOPT_FTP_ACCOUNT, CURLOPT_FTP_ALTERNATIVE_TO_USER, CURLOPT_FTP_SSL_CCC and CURLOPT_USE_SSL level.

Hackerone report

#1892780

Impact

Accessing content with wrong cached credentials.