CVE-2023-46218

Publication date 6 December 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

This flaw allows a malicious HTTP server to set "super cookies" in curl that are then passed back to more origins than what is otherwise allowed or possible. This allows a site to set cookies that then would get sent to different and unrelated sites and domains. It could do this by exploiting a mixed case flaw in curl's function that verifies a given cookie domain against the Public Suffix List (PSL). For example a cookie could be set with `domain=co.UK` when the URL used a lower case hostname `curl.co.uk`, even though `co.uk` is listed as a PSL domain.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
curl 23.10 mantic
Fixed 8.2.1-1ubuntu3.2
23.04 lunar
Fixed 7.88.1-8ubuntu2.4
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.15
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.21
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
curl

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

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