CVE-2022-42916 (High) detected in curl-sys-0.4.55+curl-7.83.1.crate

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CVE-2022-42916 - High Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - curl-sys-0.4.55+curl-7.83.1.crate

Native bindings to the libcurl library

Library home page: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/curl-sys/0.4.55+curl-7.83.1/download

Dependency Hierarchy:

• tensorflow-0.17.0.crate (Root Library)
  • tensorflow-sys-0.20.0.crate
    • curl-0.4.43.crate
      • ❌ curl-sys-0.4.55+curl-7.83.1.crate (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: a5a175063bd51fcbbce0eaba88d1b9b6ad315911

Found in base branch: master

Vulnerability Details

In curl before 7.86.0, the HSTS check could be bypassed to trick it into staying with HTTP. Using its HSTS support, curl can be instructed to use HTTPS directly (instead of using an insecure cleartext HTTP step) even when HTTP is provided in the URL. This mechanism could be bypassed if the host name in the given URL uses IDN characters that get replaced with ASCII counterparts as part of the IDN conversion, e.g., using the character UTF-8 U+3002 (IDEOGRAPHIC FULL STOP) instead of the common ASCII full stop of U+002E (.). The earliest affected version is 7.77.0 2021-05-26.

Publish Date: 2022-10-29

URL: CVE-2022-42916

CVSS 3 Score Details (7.5)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Scope: Unchanged
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: High
  • Integrity Impact: None
  • Availability Impact: None

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2022-42916.html

Release Date: 2022-10-29

Fix Resolution: curl-7_86_0

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