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Insufficiently Protected Credentials

CVE-2022-27774

Medium
5.7/10

Summary

An insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability exists in curl 4.9 through 7.82.0 are affected that could allow an attacker to extract credentials when follows HTTP(S) redirects is used with authentication could leak credentials to other services that exist on different protocols or port numbers.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-522 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials

The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published