CVE-2018-1000120
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It was found that libcurl did not safely parse FTP URLs when using the CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD method. An attacker, able to provide a specially crafted FTP URL to an application using libcurl, could write a NULL byte at an arbitrary location, resulting in a crash, or an unspecified behavior.
Find out more about CVE-2018-1000120 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
CVSS v3 metrics
| CVSS3 Base Score | 5.4 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | Low |
| Availability Impact | Low |
Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (curl) | RHSA-2018:3157 | 2018-10-30 |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (httpd24-curl) | RHSA-2018:3558 | 2018-11-13 |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (httpd24-curl) | RHSA-2018:3558 | 2018-11-13 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss Core Services 1 | curl | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | curl | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | curl | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 | curl | Will not fix |
| .NET Core 2.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-dotnet20-curl | Will not fix |
| .NET Core 2.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-dotnet21-curl | Will not fix |
| .NET Core 1.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-dotnetcore10-curl | Will not fix |
| .NET Core 1.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-dotnetcore11-curl | Will not fix |
Acknowledgements
Red Hat would like to thank the Curl project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Duy Phan Thanh as the original reporter.Mitigation
Preventing application from using non-default CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD will avoid triggering the vulnerable code.