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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-23914: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-23914: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
02/23/2023
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

A cleartext transmission of sensitive information vulnerability exists in curl <v7.88.0 that could cause HSTS functionality fail when multiple URLs are requested serially. Using its HSTS support, curl can be instructed to use HTTPS instead of usingan insecure clear-text HTTP step even when HTTP is provided in the URL. ThisHSTS mechanism would however surprisingly be ignored by subsequent transferswhen done on the same command line because the state would not be properlycarried on.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-curl

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