CVE-2012-0036

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    CVE-2012-0036

    Published: 13 Apr 2012Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: curl and libcurl 7.2x before 7.24.0 do not properly consider special characters during extraction of a pathname from a URL, which allows remote attackers to conduct data-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by a CRLF injection attack on the (1) IMAP, (2) POP3, or (3) SMTP protocol.

    References: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20120124.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/48256, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-02.xml, http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2398, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:058, http://curl.haxx.se/curl-url-sanitize.patch, https://github.com/bagder/curl/commit/75ca568fa1c19de4c5358fed246686de8467c238, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773457, http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03360041, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51665, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032924, https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03760en_us

    Affected packages

    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