CVE-2009-0037 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2009-0037

The redirect implementation in curl and libcurl 5.11 through 7.19.3,...

Vulnerability Description

The redirect implementation in curl and libcurl 5.11 through 7.19.3, when CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION is enabled, accepts arbitrary Location values, which might allow remote HTTP servers to (1) trigger arbitrary requests to intranet servers, (2) read or overwrite arbitrary files via a redirect to a file: URL, or (3) execute arbitrary commands via a redirect to an scp: URL.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

curl, libcurl
Vulnerable Versions:
5.11, 6.0, 6.1beta, 6.2, 6.3, 6.3.1, 6.4, 6.5, 6.5.1, 6.5.2, 7.1, 7.1.1, 7.2, 7.2.1, 7.3, 7.4, 7.4.1, 7.4.2, 7.5, 7.5.1, 7.5.2, 7.6, 7.6.1, 7.7, 7.7.1, 7.7.2, 7.7.3, 7.8, 7.8.1, 7.8.2, 7.9, 7.9.1, 7.9.2, 7.9.3, 7.9.4, 7.9.5, 7.9.6, 7.9.7, 7.9.8, 7.10, 7.10.1, 7.10.2, 7.10.3, 7.10.4, 7.10.5, 7.10.6, 7.10.7, 7.10.8, 7.11.1, 7.12, 7.12.1, 7.12.2, 7.13, 7.13.2, 7.14, 7.14.1, 7.15, 7.15.1, 7.15.3, 7.16.3, 7.16.4, 7.17, 7.18, 7.19.3, 7.12.3, 7.13.1, 7.15.2

Timeline

Official Publish: March 5th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.