NetSight
medium6.5

CVE-2023-23915

A cleartext transmission of sensitive information vulnerability exists in curl <v7.88.0 that could cause HSTS functionality to behave incorrectly when multiple…

Impact

A cleartext transmission of sensitive information vulnerability exists in curl <v7.88.0 that could cause HSTS functionality to behave incorrectly when multiple URLs are requested in parallel. Using its HSTS support, curl can be instructed to use HTTPS instead of using an insecure clear-text HTTP step even when HTTP is provided in the URL. This HSTS mechanism would however surprisingly fail when multiple transfers are done in parallel as the HSTS cache file gets overwritten by the most recentlycompleted transfer. A later HTTP-only transfer to the earlier host name would then *not* get upgraded properly to HSTS.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
HaxxCurl
from 7.77.0 before 7.88.0
NetappActive Iq Unified Manager
All versions
NetappClustered Data Ontap
Version 9.0
NetappH300s Firmware
All versions
NetappH500s Firmware
All versions
NetappH700s Firmware
All versions
NetappH410s Firmware
All versions
SplunkUniversal Forwarder
from 8.2.0 before 8.2.12
from 9.0.0 before 9.0.6
Version 9.1.0

Weakness classification

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