Curl vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product214 versions
The short answer

Curl is made by Haxx. We track 111 published vulnerabilities in it, across 214 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Curl, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Known exploited

Which Curl vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

None of Curl's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Curl flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 73%

    The SSL protocol, as used in certain configurations in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, and other products, encrypts data by using CBC mode with chained...

    CVSS4.3Published6 Sep 2011
  2. 64%

    curl 7.75.0 through 7.76.1 suffers from a use-after-free vulnerability resulting in already freed memory being used when a TLS 1.3 session ticket arrives over a connection.

    CVSS8.1Published11 Jun 2021
  3. 58%

    When curl retrieves an HTTP response, it stores the incoming headers so that they can be accessed later via the libcurl headers API.

    CVSS7.5Published15 Sep 2023
  4. 36%

    curl < 7.84.0 supports "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a serverresponse can be compressed multiple times and potentially with different algorithms.

    CVSS6.5Published7 Jul 2022
  5. 31%

    A malicious server can serve excessive amounts of `Set-Cookie:` headers in a HTTP response to curl and curl < 7.84.0 stores all of them.

    CVSS4.3Published7 Jul 2022
  6. 30%

    The sanitize_cookie_path function in cURL and libcurl 7.31.0 through 7.41.0 does not properly calculate an index, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) or possibly...

    CVSS7.5Published24 Apr 2015
  7. 18%

    Heap buffer overflow in the TFTP protocol handler in cURL 7.19.4 to 7.65.3.

    CVSS9.8Published16 Sep 2019
  8. 17%

    A vulnerability exists in curl <7.87.0 HSTS check that could be bypassed to trick it to keep using HTTP.

    CVSS7.5Published23 Dec 2022
  9. 15%

    libcurl-using applications can ask for a specific client certificate to be used in a transfer.

    CVSS7.5Published5 Aug 2021
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We track 111 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Curl, across 214 versions.

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