When doing SSH-based transfers using either SCP or SFTP, and asked to do public key authentication, curl would wrongly still ask and authenticate using a locally running SSH agent.
Weakness
When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curl | Haxx | 7.58.0 (including) | 8.18.0 (excluding) |
| Curl | Ubuntu | esm-infra/bionic | * |
| Curl | Ubuntu | esm-infra/focal | * |
| Curl | Ubuntu | jammy | * |
| Curl | Ubuntu | noble | * |
| Curl | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
Potential Mitigations
Related Attack Patterns
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/114.html
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- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/593.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/633.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/650.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/94.html