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CVE-2020-8285
curl 7.21.0 to and including 7.73.0 is vulnerable to uncontrolled...
Vulnerability Description
curl 7.21.0 to and including 7.73.0 is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion due to a stack overflow issue in FTP wildcard match parsing.
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
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1045844
- https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6255
- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2020-8285.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NZUVSQHN2ESHMJXNQ2Z7T2EELBB5HJXG/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00029.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DAEHE2S2QLO4AO4MEEYL75NB7SAH5PSL/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-14
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4881
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Apr/51
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0007/
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212325
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212326
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212327
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf
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Affected Vendor
Affected Software
https://github.com/curl/curl
Vulnerable Versions:
libcurl 7.21.0 to and including 7.73.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
December 14th, 2020
Last Modified:
April 16th, 2026
Added to House:
July 21st, 2026
CVSS Vectors
No vector data available
Weaknesses (CWE)
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.