Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-1000099 - Information Exposure vulnerability in Haxx Libcurl 7.54.1

047910
CVSS 6.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
haxx
CWE-200
nessus
NVD
Published: 2017-10-05
Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

When asking to get a file from a file:// URL, libcurl provides a feature that outputs meta-data about the file using HTTP-like headers. The code doing this would send the wrong buffer to the user (stdout or the application's provide callback), which could lead to other private data from the heap to get inadvertently displayed. The wrong buffer was an uninitialized memory area allocated on the heap and if it turned out to not contain any zero byte, it would continue and display the data following that buffer in memory.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Haxx
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Subverting Environment Variable Values
    The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
  • Footprinting
    An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
  • Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible)
    An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
  • Browser Fingerprinting
    An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
  • Session Credential Falsification through Prediction
    This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.

Nessus

  • NASL familyAmazon Linux Local Security Checks
    NASL idALA_ALAS-2017-889.NASL
    descriptionFILE buffer read out of bounds (CVE-2017-1000099) TFTP sends more than buffer size (CVE-2017-1000100) URL globbing out of bounds read (CVE-2017-1000101)
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id102877
    published2017-09-01
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102877
    titleAmazon Linux AMI : curl (ALAS-2017-889)
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2017-889.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(102877);
  script_version("3.4");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/04/18 15:09:36");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-1000099", "CVE-2017-1000100", "CVE-2017-1000101");
  script_xref(name:"ALAS", value:"2017-889");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : curl (ALAS-2017-889)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"FILE buffer read out of bounds (CVE-2017-1000099)

TFTP sends more than buffer size (CVE-2017-1000100)

URL globbing out of bounds read (CVE-2017-1000101)"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2017-889.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Run 'yum update curl' to update your system."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:curl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:curl-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libcurl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libcurl-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/08/31");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/09/01");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);

release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(release) || !strlen(release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "A")
{
  if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
  audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux AMI", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}

if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"curl-7.51.0-9.75.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"curl-debuginfo-7.51.0-9.75.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"libcurl-7.51.0-9.75.amzn1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"ALA", reference:"libcurl-devel-7.51.0-9.75.amzn1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "curl / curl-debuginfo / libcurl / libcurl-devel");
}
  • NASL familyPhotonOS Local Security Checks
    NASL idPHOTONOS_PHSA-2017-0045_CURL.NASL
    descriptionAn update of the curl package has been released.
    last seen2020-03-17
    modified2019-02-07
    plugin id121761
    published2019-02-07
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121761
    titlePhoton OS 2.0: Curl PHSA-2017-0045
    code
    #
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#


# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2017-0045. The text
# itself is copyright (C) VMware, Inc.


include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(121761);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2019/02/07");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2017-1000099",
    "CVE-2017-1000100",
    "CVE-2017-1000101",
    "CVE-2017-1000254"
  );

  script_name(english:"Photon OS 2.0: Curl PHSA-2017-0045");
  script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"An update of the curl package has been released.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Updates-2-2.md");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected Linux packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2017-15041");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/11/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/11/17");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/02/07");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:vmware:photonos:curl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:vmware:photonos:2.0");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"PhotonOS Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/PhotonOS/release", "Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}

include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);

release = get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/release");
if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^VMware Photon") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS");
if (release !~ "^VMware Photon (?:Linux|OS) 2\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "PhotonOS 2.0");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/PhotonOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "PhotonOS", cpu);

flag = 0;

if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"curl-7.54.1-3.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"curl-7.54.1-3.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"curl-7.54.1-3.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"curl-7.54.1-3.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"curl-debuginfo-7.54.1-3.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"curl-debuginfo-7.54.1-3.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"curl-debuginfo-7.54.1-3.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"curl-debuginfo-7.54.1-3.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"curl-devel-7.54.1-3.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"curl-devel-7.54.1-3.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"curl-devel-7.54.1-3.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"curl-devel-7.54.1-3.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"curl-libs-7.54.1-3.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"curl-libs-7.54.1-3.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"curl-libs-7.54.1-3.ph2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"PhotonOS-2.0", reference:"curl-libs-7.54.1-3.ph2")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
    extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "curl");
}
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2017-F2DF9D7772.NASL
    descriptionSecurity fixes for CVE-2017-1000100 and CVE-2017-1000101 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-08-14
    plugin id102463
    published2017-08-14
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102463
    titleFedora 25 : curl (2017-f2df9d7772)
    code
    #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2017-f2df9d7772.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(102463);
  script_version("3.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-1000099", "CVE-2017-1000100", "CVE-2017-1000101");
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2017-f2df9d7772");

  script_name(english:"Fedora 25 : curl (2017-f2df9d7772)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Security fixes for CVE-2017-1000100 and CVE-2017-1000101

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as
possible without introducing additional issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-f2df9d7772"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected curl package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:curl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2017/10/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/08/13");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/08/14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^25([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 25", "Fedora " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC25", reference:"curl-7.51.0-9.fc25")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
    extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "curl");
}
  • NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
    NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_69CFA3867CD011E7867FB499BAEBFEAF.NASL
    descriptionThe cURL project reports : - FILE buffer read out of bounds - TFTP sends more than buffer size - URL globbing out of bounds read
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id102330
    published2017-08-10
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102330
    titleFreeBSD : cURL -- multiple vulnerabilities (69cfa386-7cd0-11e7-867f-b499baebfeaf)
  • NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
    NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-201709-14.NASL
    descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201709-14 (cURL: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in cURL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : Remote attackers could cause a Denial of Service condition, obtain sensitive information, or bypass intended restrictions for TLS sessions. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id103282
    published2017-09-18
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/103282
    titleGLSA-201709-14 : cURL: Multiple vulnerabilities
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2017-F1FFD18079.NASL
    descriptionSecurity fixes for CVE-2017-1000100 and CVE-2017-1000101 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-08-14
    plugin id102462
    published2017-08-14
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102462
    titleFedora 26 : curl (2017-f1ffd18079)
  • NASL familyPhotonOS Local Security Checks
    NASL idPHOTONOS_PHSA-2017-0045.NASL
    descriptionAn update of [go,curl,libtiff,systemd,bash] packages for PhotonOS has been released.
    last seen2019-02-21
    modified2019-02-07
    plugin id111894
    published2018-08-17
    reporterTenable
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=111894
    titlePhoton OS 2.0: Bash / Curl / Go / Libtiff / Systemd PHSA-2017-0045 (deprecated)
  • NASL familySlackware Local Security Checks
    NASL idSLACKWARE_SSA_2017-221-01.NASL
    descriptionNew curl packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues.
    last seen2020-06-01
    modified2020-06-02
    plugin id102365
    published2017-08-11
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/102365
    titleSlackware 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 / 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / current : curl (SSA:2017-221-01)

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