CVE-2018-1000120
A buffer overflow exists in curl 7.12.3 to and including curl 7.58.0 in the FTP URL handling that allows an attacker to cause a denial of service or worse.
02 Description
A buffer overflow exists in curl 7.12.3 to and including curl 7.58.0 in the FTP URL handling that allows an attacker to cause a denial of service or worse.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 11.60% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 95.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-03-14 18:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 12:33Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-03-08
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 45845db404172111f8f4f82b10e51bd80f58eac5e2190d248bbd0a1599c54d1b
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html
- www.oracle.comhttps://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:3558https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:3157https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3157
- www.debian.orgDSA-4136https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4136
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20180318 [SECURITY] [DLA 1309-1] curl security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00012.html
- www.securityfocus.com103414http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103414
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3598-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3598-1/
- www.securitytracker.com1040531http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040531
- curl.haxx.sehttps://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_2018-9cd6.html
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3598-2https://usn.ubuntu.com/3598-2/
- access.redhat.comRHBA-2019:0327https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:1543https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1543
- www.oracle.comhttps://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html
- www.oracle.comhttps://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2020:0544https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0544
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2020:0594https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0594
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- curl Fixed in 7.59.0-1
- lib32-curl Fixed in 7.59.0-1
- lib32-libcurl-compat Fixed in 7.59.0-1
- lib32-libcurl-gnutls Fixed in 7.59.0-1
- libcurl-compat Fixed in 7.59.0-1
- libcurl-gnutls Fixed in 7.59.0-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- curl Fixed in 7.60.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- curl Fixed in 7.60.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- curl Fixed in 7.60.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- curl Fixed in 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.15
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- curl Fixed in 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.7
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- curl Fixed in 7.58.0-2ubuntu3
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.