How to Scan Your Environment for Vulnerable Versions of Curl

October 12, 2023 at 09:59AM The recently fixed vulnerabilities in the command-line tool curl and the libcurl library require security teams to identify and remediate impacted systems. The vulnerabilities can only be exploited under specific conditions. Organizations should scan their environment using software analysis tools to assess which systems are using curl and libcurl. Additionally, … Read more

Curl Bug Hype Fizzles After Patching Reveal

October 11, 2023 at 04:24PM The cybersecurity community anxiously awaited the disclosure of two security flaws in the open source proxy resolution tool, Curl. However, after patches and bug details were unveiled, neither vulnerability lived up to the hype. The first flaw could allow data corruption or remote code execution, but it only affects a … Read more

Critical SOCKS5 Vulnerability in cURL Puts Enterprise Systems at Risk

October 11, 2023 at 12:06PM Patches have been released for a critical memory corruption vulnerability in the cURL data transfer project. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-38545, affects the SOCKS5 proxy handshake process in cURL, allowing remote exploitation in certain configurations. The bug can lead to heap buffer overflow, and affected versions are 7.69.0 to 8.3.0. … Read more