SARA / Free Tools / CVE / CVE-2023-28321

CVE-2023-28321 — An improper certificate validation vulnerability exists in curl <v8

An improper certificate validation vulnerability exists in curl <v8.1.0 in the way it supports matching of wildcard patterns when listed as "Subject Alternative Name" in TLS server certificates. curl can be built to use its own name matching function for TLS rather t

CVSS
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EPSS
0.30% (top 47.30%)
CWE
CWE-295
Published
2023-05-26T00:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2025-01-15T15:54:33.745Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

An improper certificate validation vulnerability exists in curl <v8.1.0 in the way it supports matching of wildcard patterns when listed as "Subject Alternative Name" in TLS server certificates. curl can be built to use its own name matching function for TLS rather than one provided by a TLS library. This private wildcard matching function would match IDN (International Domain Name) hosts…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
na / https://github.com/curl/curlFixed in 8.1.0

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

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

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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