{"id":"USN-2591-1","summary":"curl vulnerabilities","details":"Paras Sethia discovered that curl could incorrectly re-use NTLM HTTP\ncredentials when subsequently connecting to the same host over HTTP.\n(CVE-2015-3143)\n\nHanno Böck discovered that curl incorrectly handled zero-length host names.\nIf a user or automated system were tricked into using a specially crafted\nhost name, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause curl to\ncrash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary\ncode. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 15.04.\n(CVE-2015-3144)\n\nHanno Böck discovered that curl incorrectly handled cookie path elements.\nIf a user or automated system were tricked into parsing a specially crafted\ncookie, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause curl to crash,\nresulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This\nissue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 15.04.\n(CVE-2015-3145)\n\nIsaac Boukris discovered that when using Negotiate authenticated\nconnections, curl could incorrectly authenticate the entire connection and\nnot just specific HTTP requests. (CVE-2015-3148)\n\nYehezkel Horowitz and Oren Souroujon discovered that curl sent HTTP headers\nboth to servers and proxies by default, contrary to expectations. This\nissue only affected Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 15.04. (CVE-2015-3153)\n","modified":"2026-04-22T09:12:11.778440Z","published":"2015-04-30T13:27:57Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3143","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3145","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3148","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3153"],"upstream":["CVE-2015-3143","CVE-2015-3144","CVE-2015-3145","CVE-2015-3148","CVE-2015-3153","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3143","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3144","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3145","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3148","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3153"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2591-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3143"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3144"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3145"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3148"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3153"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"curl","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/curl@7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5"}]}],"versions":["7.32.0-1ubuntu1","7.33.0-1ubuntu1","7.34.0-1ubuntu1","7.35.0-1ubuntu1","7.35.0-1ubuntu2","7.35.0-1ubuntu2.1","7.35.0-1ubuntu2.2","7.35.0-1ubuntu2.3"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5","binary_name":"curl"},{"binary_version":"7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5","binary_name":"libcurl3"},{"binary_version":"7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5","binary_name":"libcurl3-gnutls"},{"binary_version":"7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5","binary_name":"libcurl3-nss"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"cves":[{"id":"CVE-2015-3143","severity":[{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]},{"id":"CVE-2015-3145","severity":[{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]},{"id":"CVE-2015-3148","severity":[{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]}],"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2591-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}