CVE-2017-7407

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    CVE-2017-7407

    Published: 3 Apr 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The ourWriteOut function in tool_writeout.c in curl 7.53.1 might allow physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory in opportunistic circumstances by reading a workstation screen during use of a --write-out argument ending in a '%' character, which leads to a heap-based buffer over-read.

    References: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-14, https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/1890d59905414ab84a35892b2e45833654aa5c13

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 25df50aa3392ecdbf2b8256b93b30558e8b3a810
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    7.53.1

    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
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