libcurl Skips Certificate Verification for QUIC Connections Under Certain Conditions
CVE-2024-2379

6.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Curl

Status
Curl
Vendor
CVE Published:
27 March 2024

What is CVE-2024-2379?

libcurl skips the certificate verification for a QUIC connection under certain conditions, when built to use wolfSSL. If told to use an unknown/bad cipher or curve, the error path accidentally skips the verification and returns OK, thus ignoring any certificate problems.

Affected Version(s)

curl 8.6.0

References

https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2024-2379.json
https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2024-2379.html
https://hackerone.com/reports/2410774

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.3
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Dexter Gerig
Daniel Stenberg
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CVE-2024-2379 : libcurl Skips Certificate Verification for QUIC Connections Under Certain Conditions