DEBIAN-CVE-2023-28321

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-28321
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Published
2023-05-26T21:15:16Z
Modified
2025-09-25T23:29:38.586384Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / curl

Package

Name
curl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/curl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.74.0-1.3+deb11u9

Affected versions

7.*

7.74.0-1.3
7.74.0-1.3+deb11u1
7.74.0-1.3+deb11u2
7.74.0-1.3+deb11u3
7.74.0-1.3+deb11u4
7.74.0-1.3+deb11u5
7.74.0-1.3+deb11u6
7.74.0-1.3+deb11u7~bpo11+1
7.74.0-1.3+deb11u7
7.74.0-1.3+deb11u8

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / curl

Package

Name
curl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/curl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.88.1-10

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / curl

Package

Name
curl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/curl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.88.1-10

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / curl

Package

Name
curl
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/curl?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7.88.1-10

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}