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TI-2017-06327 Aliases CVE-2017-8818GHSA-rm6j-8x6m-cxhp

Memory corruption in curl and libcurl before 7.57.0

Priority MEDIUM 48CWE-119Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-119 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 on 32-bit platforms allow attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because too little memory is allocated for interfacing to an SSL library.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.03407 88th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
—curl and libcurl before 7.57.0curl and libcurl before 7.57.0—No fix listedCNA
  • curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 Vendor— Affected curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 4

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.56.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*7.56.0VulnerableHaxx
cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.56.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*7.56.1VulnerableHaxx
cpe:2.3:a:haxx:libcurl:7.56.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*7.56.0VulnerableHaxx
cpe:2.3:a:haxx:libcurl:7.56.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*7.56.1VulnerableHaxx
  • cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.56.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 7.56.0 Vulnerable ·Haxx
  • cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:7.56.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 7.56.1 Vulnerable ·Haxx
  • cpe:2.3:a:haxx:libcurl:7.56.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 7.56.0 Vulnerable ·Haxx
  • cpe:2.3:a:haxx:libcurl:7.56.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 7.56.1 Vulnerable ·Haxx

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 9 products
  • .NET Core 1.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • .NET Core 1.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • .NET Core 2.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 2
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Software Collections

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2017-8818
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-rm6j-8x6m-cxhp

References

Patch 1

Advisory 2

  • TI-2026-16162 Negotiate ambient user conn reuse CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2026-10231 cross-origin Digest auth state leak CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2026-09063 HTTP/2 stream-dependency tree UAF CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2026-07976 stale proxy password leak CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2026-07845 SASL double-free CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2023-12257 Injection in https://github.com/curl/curl CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
See all 168 →

Sources

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