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High USN-4402-1 2 CVEs

curl vulnerabilities

Published Jun 24, 2020 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Summary

Marek Szlagor, Gregory Jefferis and Jeroen Ooms discovered
that curl incorrectly handled certain credentials. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2020-8169)

It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain parameters.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite a local file.
(CVE-2020-8177)

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS curl 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.15
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS curl 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.9
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS curl 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.1
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS curl 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm4

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-8169
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-8177