CVE-2017-2628 — curl, as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 before version 7

curl, as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 before version 7.19.7-53, did not correctly backport the fix for CVE-2015-3148 because it did not reflect the fact that the HAVE_GSSAPI define was meanwhile substituted by USE_HTTP_NEGOTIATE. This issue was introduced in RHEL 6.7 and

01What is this vulnerability?

curl, as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 before version 7.19.7-53, did not correctly backport the fix for CVE-2015-3148 because it did not reflect the fact that the HAVE_GSSAPI define was meanwhile substituted by USE_HTTP_NEGOTIATE. This issue was introduced in RHEL 6.7 and affects RHEL 6 curl only.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat, Inc.	curl	7.19.7-53

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-03-12T15:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T14:02:06.934Z

09References

• rhn.redhat.com — http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0847.html
• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97187
• bugzilla.redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422464