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CVE-2023-38545

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Published: Oct 18, 2023Modified: Jun 17, 2026

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9.8
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 5.9
Source: NVD

Description

This flaw makes curl overflow a heap based buffer in the SOCKS5 proxy handshake. When curl is asked to pass along the host name to the SOCKS5 proxy to allow that to resolve the address instead of it getting done by curl itself, the maximum length that host name can be is 255 bytes. If the host name is detected to be longer, curl switches to local name resolving and instead passes on the resolved address only. Due to this bug, the local variable that means "let the host resolve the name" could get the wrong value during a slow SOCKS5 handshake, and contrary to the intention, copy the too long host name to the target buffer instead of copying just the resolved address there. The target buffer being a heap based buffer, and the host name coming from the URL that curl has been told to operate with.

Affected (14)

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1 product
Libcurl
1 product
Fedora
3 products
Active Iq Unified Manager
Oncommand Insight
Oncommand Workflow Automation
8 products
Windows 10 1809
Windows 10 21h2
Windows 10 22h2
Windows 11 21h2
Windows 11 22h2
Windows 11 23h2
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2022
Configuration A
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
From 7.69.0 to 8.4.0
Configuration B
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Version 37
Configuration C
4 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Netapp
All versions
All versions
All versions
All versions
Configuration D
8 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Before 10.0.17763.5122
Before 10.0.19044.3693
Before 10.0.19045.3693
Before 10.0.22000.2600
Before 10.0.22621.2715
Before 10.0.22631.2715
Before 10.0.17763.5122
Before 10.0.20348.2113

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