Bug 1847916 (CVE-2020-8169)

Summary:	CVE-2020-8169 libcurl: partial password leak over DNS on HTTP redirect
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	msiddiqu
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	andrew.slice, bodavis, csutherl, dbhole, erik-fedora, gzaronik, hhorak, hvyas, jclere, john.j5live, jorton, jwon, kanderso, kdudka, krathod, luhliari, mbabacek, mike, mjg, msekleta, mturk, omajid, paul, pjindal, rakesh.pandit, rwagner, security-response-team, svashisht, walter.pete
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	curl 7.71.0	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in libcurl. A part of a password may be prepended to the host name before the host name is resolved, leading to a leak of the partial password over the network and to DNS servers. This highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2021-06-17 15:03:55 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
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Bug Depends On:	1851435, 1851436, 1851437
Bug Blocks:	1847917

Description msiddiqu 2020-06-17 10:45:54 UTC

libcurl can be tricked to prepend a part of the password to the host name
before it resolves it, potentially leaking the partial password over the
network and to the DNS server(s).

Comment 2 Stefan Cornelius 2020-06-26 13:47:32 UTC

External References:

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2020-8169.html

Comment 3 Stefan Cornelius 2020-06-26 13:50:06 UTC

Created curl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1851435]


Created flickcurl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1851437]


Created mingw-curl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1851436]

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2021-06-17 11:35:31 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  JBoss Core Services Apache HTTP Server 2.4.37 SP8

Via RHSA-2021:2471 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2471

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2021-06-17 11:45:00 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7
  JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8

Via RHSA-2021:2472 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2472

Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-06-17 15:03:55 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-8169