Bug 1388390 (CVE-2016-8624) - CVE-2016-8624 curl: Invalid URL parsing with '#'
Summary: CVE-2016-8624 curl: Invalid URL parsing with '#'
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-8624
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1390894 1390895 1390896
Blocks: 1388393
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-10-25 08:39 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:07 UTC (History)
34 users (show)

Fixed In Version: curl 7.51.0
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:01:08 UTC
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Upstream patch (2.30 KB, patch)
2016-10-25 10:17 UTC, Andrej Nemec
kdudka: review-
Details | Diff


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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:2486 0 None None None 2018-08-16 16:08:00 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:3558 0 None None None 2018-11-13 08:34:00 UTC

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-10-25 08:39:13 UTC
curl doesn't parse the authority component of the URL correctly when the host
name part ends with a '#' character, and could instead be tricked into
connecting to a different host. This may have security implications if you for
example use an URL parser that follows the RFC to check for allowed domains
before using curl to request them.

Passing in `http://example.com#@evil.com/x.txt` would wrongly make curl send a
request to evil.com while your browser would connect to example.com given the
same URL.

The problem exists for most protocol schemes.

External References:

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102J.html

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-10-25 10:17:06 UTC
Created attachment 1213819 [details]
Upstream patch

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-11-02 08:29:42 UTC
Created curl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1390894]

Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2016-11-02 08:29:57 UTC
Created mingw-curl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1390895]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1390896]

Comment 4 Kamil Dudka 2016-11-04 15:15:47 UTC
Comment on attachment 1213819 [details]
Upstream patch

The patch seems to cause an unintended change in behavior:

https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-11/0059.html

Comment 5 Kamil Dudka 2016-11-07 09:36:47 UTC
Upstream considers the current behavior correct:

https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-11/0084.html

... and wants to check file:// URLs stricter to provide better diagnostic messages in case the syntax is misused (namely allow to use only "localhost" or an empty string as the <host> part of the URL).

However, we need to make sure to keep the current (though undocumented) behavior of file://FILE_FROM_CURRENT_DIR unchanged while backporting the security fix for RHEL-6 and RHEL-7.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2018-08-16 16:07:45 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Core Services

Via RHSA-2018:2486 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2018-11-13 08:33:46 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUS

Via RHSA-2018:3558 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558


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