USN-5587-1

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    USN-5587-1

    Published: 1 Sept 2022Last Modified: 29 Jun 2026

    Summary: curl vulnerability

    Details: Axel Chong discovered that when curl accepted and sent back cookies containing control bytes that a HTTP(S) server might return a 400 (Bad Request Error) response. A malicious cookie host could possibly use this to cause denial-of-service.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5587-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-35252

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: curl

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/curl?arch=source&distro=trusty%2Fesm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm12

    Affected versions

    7.32.0-1ubuntu1

    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
    USN-5587-1 | CVE-DB