An improper certificate validation vulnerability exists in curl x*, which would match even though the IDN name most likely contained nothing even resembling an x.
CVE-2023-28321
Score 5.9 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2023-05-26. NVD baseline CVSS 5.9; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 5.9
- EG Score
- 5.9(medium)
- EG Risk
- 43(Track)EG Risk 43/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity59% × 45%Exploitation40% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS
- 76.3%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
May 26, 2023
Last Modified
January 15, 2025
References (24)
- support@hackeronehttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jul/47
- support@hackeronehttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jul/48
- support@hackeronehttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jul/52
- support@hackeronehttps://hackerone.com/reports/1950627
- support@hackeronehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00016.html
- support@hackeronehttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/F4I75RDGX5ULSSCBE5BF3P5I5SFO7ULQ/
- support@hackeronehttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z2LIWHWKOVH24COGGBCVOWDXXIUPKOMK/
- support@hackeronehttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-12
- support@hackeronehttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230609-0009/
- support@hackeronehttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT213843
- support@hackeronehttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT213844
- support@hackeronehttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT213845
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jul/47
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jul/48
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Jul/52
Patch Availability(8)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | libcurl4-openssl-dev (7.47.0-1ubuntu2.19+esm9) @ xenial | 2026-05-25 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | curl (7.68.0-1ubuntu2.19) @ focal | 2026-05-25 | ubuntu |
| redhat | curl-0:7.61.1-22.el8_6.9 | 2023-11-02 | redhat |
| redhat | curl-0:7.76.1-14.el9_0.7 | 2023-10-10 | redhat |
| redhat | jbcs-httpd24-curl-0:8.2.1-1.el7jbcs | 2023-08-15 | redhat |
| redhat | jbcs-httpd24-curl | 2023-08-15 | redhat |
| redhat | curl-0:7.61.1-30.el8_8.3 | 2023-08-08 | redhat |
| redhat | curl-0:7.76.1-23.el9_2.2 | 2023-08-01 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
(9)
Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
- Microsoft MSRCCVE-2023-283212023-05-27
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 incorrectly and could as a result accept patterns that otherwise should mismatch. IDN hostnames are converted to puny code before used for certificate checks. Puny coded names always start with `xn--` and should not be allowed to pattern match but the wildcard check in curl could still check for `x*` which would match even though the IDN name most likely contained nothing even resembling an `x`.
- Red HatRHSA-2023:4354MODERATE2023-05-17
RHSA-2023:4354 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:4523MODERATE2023-05-17
RHSA-2023:4523 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:4628MODERATE2023-05-17
RHSA-2023:4628 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:4629MODERATE2023-05-17
RHSA-2023:4629 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:5598MODERATE2023-05-17
RHSA-2023:5598 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:6292MODERATE2023-05-17
RHSA-2023:6292 — Moderate
- UbuntuUSN-6237-1LOW
curl vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6237-3LOW
curl vulnerabilities
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