CVE-2025-0167 (GCVE-0-2025-0167)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-05 09:15 – Updated: 2025-03-07 00:10
VLAI
Title
netrc and default credential leak
Summary
When asked to use a `.netrc` file for credentials **and** to follow HTTP redirects, curl could leak the password used for the first host to the followed-to host under certain circumstances. This flaw only manifests itself if the netrc file has a `default` entry that omits both login and password. A rare circumstance.
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-05 15:52 UTC
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
curl curl Affected: 8.11.1 , ≤ 8.11.1 (semver)
Affected: 8.11.0 , ≤ 8.11.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.10.1 , ≤ 8.10.1 (semver)
Affected: 8.10.0 , ≤ 8.10.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.9.1 , ≤ 8.9.1 (semver)
Affected: 8.9.0 , ≤ 8.9.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.8.0 , ≤ 8.8.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.7.1 , ≤ 8.7.1 (semver)
Affected: 8.7.0 , ≤ 8.7.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.6.0 , ≤ 8.6.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.5.0 , ≤ 8.5.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.4.0 , ≤ 8.4.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.3.0 , ≤ 8.3.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.2.1 , ≤ 8.2.1 (semver)
Affected: 8.2.0 , ≤ 8.2.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.1.2 , ≤ 8.1.2 (semver)
Affected: 8.1.1 , ≤ 8.1.1 (semver)
Affected: 8.1.0 , ≤ 8.1.0 (semver)
Affected: 8.0.1 , ≤ 8.0.1 (semver)
Affected: 8.0.0 , ≤ 8.0.0 (semver)
Affected: 7.88.1 , ≤ 7.88.1 (semver)
Affected: 7.88.0 , ≤ 7.88.0 (semver)
Affected: 7.87.0 , ≤ 7.87.0 (semver)
Affected: 7.86.0 , ≤ 7.86.0 (semver)
Affected: 7.85.0 , ≤ 7.85.0 (semver)
Affected: 7.84.0 , ≤ 7.84.0 (semver)
Affected: 7.83.1 , ≤ 7.83.1 (semver)
Affected: 7.83.0 , ≤ 7.83.0 (semver)
Affected: 7.82.0 , ≤ 7.82.0 (semver)
Affected: 7.81.0 , ≤ 7.81.0 (semver)
Affected: 7.80.0 , ≤ 7.80.0 (semver)
Affected: 7.79.1 , ≤ 7.79.1 (semver)
Affected: 7.79.0 , ≤ 7.79.0 (semver)
Affected: 7.78.0 , ≤ 7.78.0 (semver)
Affected: 7.77.0 , ≤ 7.77.0 (semver)
Affected: 7.76.1 , ≤ 7.76.1 (semver)
Affected: 7.76.0 , ≤ 7.76.0 (semver)
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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