CVE-2023-27534
A path traversal vulnerability exists in curl <8.0.0 SFTP implementation causes the tilde (~) character to be wrongly replaced when used as a prefix in the first path element, in addition to its intended use as the first element to indicate a path relative to the user's home directory. Attackers can exploit this flaw to bypass filtering or execute arbitrary code by crafting a path like /~2/foo while accessing a server with a specific user.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 84% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWE
- CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- broadcom:brocade_fabric_operating_system_firmware
- fedoraproject:fedora
- haxx:curl
- netapp:active_iq_unified_manager
- netapp:h300s_firmware
- netapp:h410s_firmware
- netapp:h500s_firmware
- netapp:h700s_firmware
- splunk:universal_forwarder
References
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1892351
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00016.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/36NBD5YLJXXEDZLDGNFCERWRYJQ6LAQW/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-12
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230420-0012/