CVE-2023-27538 (GCVE-0-2023-27538)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-30 00:00 – Updated: 2025-06-09 14:52
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in libcurl prior to v8.0.0 where it reuses a previously established SSH connection despite the fact that an SSH option was modified, which should have prevented reuse. libcurl maintains a pool of previously used connections to reuse them for subsequent transfers if the configurations match. However, two SSH settings were omitted from the configuration check, allowing them to match easily, potentially leading to the reuse of an inappropriate connection.
Severity
7.7 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-09 14:52 UTC
CWE
- CWE-305 - Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness (CWE-305)
Assigner
References
4 references
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | https://github.com/curl/curl |
Affected:
Fixed in 8.0.0
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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