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    CVE-2020-8285

    curl 7.21.0 to and including 7.73.0 is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion due to a stack overflow issue in FTP wildcard match parsing.

    Published:Dec 9, 2020
    Last Modified:Apr 16, 2026
    EPS:Dec 14, 2020
    EPSS Score:0.00742
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Apple
    Product
    Mac Os X
    Vendor
    Apple
    Product
    Macos
    Vendor
    Debian
    Product
    Debian Linux
    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora
    Vendor
    Fujitsu
    Product
    M10-1
    Vendor
    Fujitsu
    Product
    M10-1 Firmware
    Vendor
    Fujitsu
    Product
    M10-4
    Vendor
    Fujitsu
    Product
    M10-4 Firmware
    Vendor
    Fujitsu
    Product
    M10-4s
    Vendor
    Fujitsu
    Product
    M10-4s Firmware
    Vendor
    Fujitsu
    Product
    M12-1
    Vendor
    Fujitsu
    Product
    M12-1 Firmware
    Vendor
    Fujitsu
    Product
    M12-2
    Vendor
    Fujitsu
    Product
    M12-2 Firmware
    Vendor
    Fujitsu
    Product
    M12-2s
    Vendor
    Fujitsu
    Product
    M12-2s Firmware
    Vendor
    Haxx
    Product
    Libcurl
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    Clustered Data Ontap
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    Hci Bootstrap Os
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    Hci Compute Node
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    Hci Management Node
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    Hci Storage Node
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    Hci Storage Node Firmware
    Vendor
    Netapp
    Product
    Solidfire
    Vendor
    Oracle
    Product
    Communications Billing And Revenue Management
    Vendor
    Oracle
    Product
    Communications Cloud Native Core Policy
    Vendor
    Oracle
    Product
    Essbase
    Vendor
    Oracle
    Product
    Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Jboss Core Services
    Vendor
    Siemens
    Product
    Sinec Infrastructure Network Services
    Vendor
    Splunk
    Product
    Universal Forwarder

    Exploits

    https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6255https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6255

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads

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    References

    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Apr/51
    https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf
    https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2020-8285.html
    https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6255
    https://hackerone.com/reports/1045844
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00029.html
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DAEHE2S2QLO4AO4MEEYL75NB7SAH5PSL/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NZUVSQHN2ESHMJXNQ2Z7T2EELBB5HJXG/
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-14
    https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0007/
    https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212325
    https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212326
    https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212327
    https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4881
    https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
    https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
    https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
    https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Apr/51
    https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf
    https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2020-8285.html
    https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6255
    https://hackerone.com/reports/1045844
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00029.html
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DAEHE2S2QLO4AO4MEEYL75NB7SAH5PSL/
    https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NZUVSQHN2ESHMJXNQ2Z7T2EELBB5HJXG/
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-14
    https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0007/
    https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212325
    https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212326
    https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212327
    https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4881
    https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
    https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
    https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
    https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High