CURL-CVE-2016-8624

vendorUSosv

invalid URL parsing with '#'

view advisory published 2016-11-02Licence: per source

curl does not parse the authority component of the URL correctly when the host name part ends with a hash (`#`) character, and could instead be tricked into connecting to a different host. This may have security implications if you for example use a URL parser that follows the RFC to check for allowed domains before using curl to request them. Passing in `http://example.com#@evil.com/x.txt` would wrongly make curl send a request to evil.com while your browser would connect to example.com given the same URL. The problem exists for most protocol schemes.

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CVE-2016-8624UShigh7.5—
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