libcurl might in some circumstances reuse the wrong connection when asked to do an authenticated HTTP(S) request after a Negotiate-authenticated one, when both use the same host.
libcurl features a pool of recent connections so that subsequent requests can reuse an existing connection to avoid overhead.
When reusing a connection a range of criteria must be met. Due to a logical error in the code, a request that was issued by an application could wrongfully reuse an existing connection to the same server that was authenticated using different credentials.
An application that first uses Negotiate authentication to a server with
user1:password1 and then does another operation to the same server asking
for any authentication method but for user2:password2 (while the previous
connection is still alive) - the second request gets confused and wrongly
reuses the same connection and sends the new request over that connection
thinking it uses a mix of user1s and user2s credentials when it is in fact
still using the connection authenticated for user1…
Weakness
According to WASC, “Insufficient Session Expiration is when a web site permits an attacker to reuse old session credentials or session IDs for authorization.”
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curl | Haxx | 7.10.6 (including) | 8.20.0 (excluding) |
| Red Hat Hardened Images | RedHat | curl-main-8.20.0-0.1.hum1 | * |
| Curl | Ubuntu | devel | * |
| Curl | Ubuntu | esm-infra-legacy/trusty | * |
| Curl | Ubuntu | esm-infra-legacy/xenial | * |
| Curl | Ubuntu | esm-infra/bionic | * |
| Curl | Ubuntu | esm-infra/focal | * |
| Curl | Ubuntu | esm-infra/xenial | * |
| Curl | Ubuntu | jammy | * |
| Curl | Ubuntu | noble | * |
| Curl | Ubuntu | questing | * |
| Curl | Ubuntu | resolute | * |
| Curl | Ubuntu | upstream | * |