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CVE-2020-8285

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Dec 14, 2020 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8285
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/674.html

curl 7.21.0 to and including 7.73.0 is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion due to a stack overflow issue in FTP wildcard match parsing.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
LibcurlHaxx7.21.0 (including)7.74.0 (excluding)
JBoss Core Services Apache HTTP Server 2.4.37 SP8RedHatjbcs-httpd24-curl*
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8RedHatjbcs-httpd24-0:1-18.el8jbcs*
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8RedHatjbcs-httpd24-apr-0:1.6.3-105.el8jbcs*
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8RedHatjbcs-httpd24-apr-util-0:1.6.1-82.el8jbcs*
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8RedHatjbcs-httpd24-brotli-0:1.0.6-40.el8jbcs*
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8RedHatjbcs-httpd24-curl-0:7.77.0-2.el8jbcs*
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8RedHatjbcs-httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.37-74.el8jbcs*
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8RedHatjbcs-httpd24-jansson-0:2.11-55.el8jbcs*
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8RedHatjbcs-httpd24-mod_cluster-native-0:1.3.16-5.Final_redhat_2.el8jbcs*
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8RedHatjbcs-httpd24-mod_http2-0:1.15.7-17.el8jbcs*
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8RedHatjbcs-httpd24-mod_jk-0:1.2.48-16.redhat_1.el8jbcs*
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8RedHatjbcs-httpd24-mod_md-1:2.0.8-36.el8jbcs*
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8RedHatjbcs-httpd24-mod_security-0:2.9.2-63.GA.el8jbcs*
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8RedHatjbcs-httpd24-nghttp2-0:1.39.2-37.el8jbcs*
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8RedHatjbcs-httpd24-openssl-1:1.1.1g-6.el8jbcs*
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8RedHatjbcs-httpd24-openssl-chil-0:1.0.0-5.el8jbcs*
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8RedHatjbcs-httpd24-openssl-pkcs11-0:0.4.10-20.el8jbcs*
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7RedHatjbcs-httpd24-0:1-18.jbcs.el7*
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7RedHatjbcs-httpd24-apr-0:1.6.3-105.jbcs.el7*
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7RedHatjbcs-httpd24-apr-util-0:1.6.1-82.jbcs.el7*
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7RedHatjbcs-httpd24-curl-0:7.77.0-2.jbcs.el7*
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7RedHatjbcs-httpd24-httpd-0:2.4.37-74.jbcs.el7*
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7RedHatjbcs-httpd24-jansson-0:2.11-55.jbcs.el7*
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7RedHatjbcs-httpd24-mod_cluster-native-0:1.3.16-5.Final_redhat_2.jbcs.el7*
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7RedHatjbcs-httpd24-mod_http2-0:1.15.7-17.jbcs.el7*
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7RedHatjbcs-httpd24-mod_jk-0:1.2.48-16.redhat_1.jbcs.el7*
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7RedHatjbcs-httpd24-mod_md-1:2.0.8-36.jbcs.el7*
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7RedHatjbcs-httpd24-mod_security-0:2.9.2-63.GA.jbcs.el7*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8RedHatcurl-0:7.61.1-18.el8*
CurlUbuntubionic*
CurlUbuntudevel*
CurlUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
CurlUbuntuesm-infra/bionic*
CurlUbuntuesm-infra/focal*
CurlUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
CurlUbuntufocal*
CurlUbuntugroovy*
CurlUbuntutrusty*
CurlUbuntutrusty/esm*
CurlUbuntuupstream*
CurlUbuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References

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