Bug 1213351 (CVE-2015-3148) - CVE-2015-3148 curl: Negotiate not treated as connection-oriented
Summary: CVE-2015-3148 curl: Negotiate not treated as connection-oriented
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-3148
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: 1214183 1214795 1214796 1215051 1215062
Blocks: 1193283 1210268 1213355
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Reported: 2015-04-20 11:10 UTC by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified: 2023-05-12 09:05 UTC (History)
22 users (show)

Fixed In Version: curl 7.42.0
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
It was discovered that libcurl could incorrectly reuse Negotiate authenticated HTTP connections for subsequent requests. If an application using libcurl established a Negotiate authenticated HTTP connection to a server and sent subsequent requests with different credentials, the connection could be re-used with the initial set of credentials instead of using the new ones.
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Last Closed: 2016-10-24 13:41:26 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1254 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: curl security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2015-07-20 17:50:03 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:2159 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: curl security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2015-11-19 08:26:18 UTC

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2015-04-20 11:10:54 UTC 
libcurl keeps a pool of its last few connections around after use to
fascilitate easy, conventient and completely transparent connection re-use for
applications.

When doing HTTP requests Negotiate authenticated, the entire connnection may
become authenticated and not just the specific HTTP request which is otherwise
how HTTP works, as Negotiate can basically use NTLM under the hood. curl was
not adhering to this fact but would assume that such requests would also be
authenticated per request.

The net effect is that libcurl may end up re-using an authenticated Negotiate
connection and sending subsequent requests on it using new credentials, while
the connection remains authenticated with a previous initial credentials
setup.

We are not aware of any exploits of this flaw.

Affected versions: from libcurl 7.10.6 to and including 7.41.0

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Daniel Stenberg (curl upstream) for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Isaac Boukris as the original reporter.
Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-04-22 07:55:29 UTC 
External References:

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20150422B.html
Comment 2 Martin Prpič 2015-04-22 07:57:15 UTC 
Created curl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1214183]
Comment 3 Stefan Cornelius 2015-04-23 09:53:16 UTC 
Note: Upstream states that the patch for libcurl 7.42.0 is only a workaround.
Comment 4 Stefan Cornelius 2015-04-23 14:32:57 UTC 
Created mingw-curl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1214795]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1214796]
Comment 5 Stefan Cornelius 2015-04-23 14:38:39 UTC 
Workaround patch:
http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2015-3148.patch
Comment 8 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-04-24 08:40:29 UTC 
Statement:

This issue affects the version of curl package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This issue is not planned to be addressed in a future update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Comment 9 Tomas Hoger 2015-04-24 12:17:22 UTC 
Upstream commit:
https://github.com/bagder/curl/commit/79b9d5f1a42578f807a6c94914bc65cbaa304b6d
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2015-04-26 12:42:49 UTC 
curl-7.40.0-3.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2015-04-28 13:01:16 UTC 
curl-7.32.0-20.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2015-05-02 18:11:21 UTC 
curl-7.37.0-14.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-22 05:44:43 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:1254 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1254.html
Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 07:08:25 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:2159 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2159.html
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