CVE-2024-2379 QUIC certificate check bypass with wolfSSL

2024-03-2707:56:41

curl

github.com

quic

certificate verification

bypass

wolfssl

libcurl

vulnerability

AI Score

7.2

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

Technical Impact

partial

JSON

libcurl skips the certificate verification for a QUIC connection under certain conditions, when built to use wolfSSL. If told to use an unknown/bad cipher or curve, the error path accidentally skips the verification and returns OK, thus ignoring any certificate problems.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "curl",
    "product": "curl",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "8.6.0",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "8.6.0"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]