CVE-2020-8169 (GCVE-0-2020-8169)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-12-14 19:41 – Updated: 2024-08-04 09:48
VLAI
Summary
curl 7.62.0 through 7.70.0 is vulnerable to an information disclosure vulnerability that can lead to a partial password being leaked over the network and to the DNS server(s).
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-200 - Information Disclosure (CWE-200)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a https://github.com/curl/curl Affected: libcurl 7.62.0 to and including 7.70.0
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