Headline
GHSA-3vpc-4p9p-47hc: curl_cffi bundles a version of libcurl affected by High Severity vulnerability
Summary
curl_cffi is potentially affected by High Severity vulnerability (CVE-2023-38545) in libcurl<8.4.0
Details
HIGH severity vulnerability in curl and libcurl: announcement Details are still unknown, but seems it will be a major issue as it’s advertised by curl devs as "probably the worst curl security flaw in a long time". A patched version (8.4.0) and details will be published around 06:00 UTC on October 11. curl_cffi wheels on PyPI ship with libcurl 7.84.0
PoC
Resolution
Versions after 0.7 bundles with libcurl>=8.5, which is not affected by this issue.
Package
pip curl-cffi (pip)
Affected versions
<= 0.6.4
Patched versions
0.7.0b6
Description
Summary
curl_cffi is potentially affected by High Severity vulnerability (CVE-2023-38545) in libcurl<8.4.0
Details
HIGH severity vulnerability in curl and libcurl: announcement
Details are still unknown, but seems it will be a major issue as it’s advertised by curl devs as "probably the worst curl security flaw in a long time".
A patched version (8.4.0) and details will be published around 06:00 UTC on October 11.
curl_cffi wheels on PyPI ship with libcurl 7.84.0
PoC
https://inspector.pypi.io/project/curl-cffi/0.5.10b2/packages/56/ae/eb7d39ad234f1f44650b910757d5aa696feff413d327c8328223ce78cb76/curl_cffi-0.5.10b2-cp37-abi3-manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux2014_aarch64.whl/curl_cffi/include/curl/curlver.h
Resolution
Versions after 0.7 bundles with libcurl>=8.5, which is not affected by this issue.
References
- GHSA-3vpc-4p9p-47hc
- GHSA-7xw9-w465-6x42
lexiforest published to lexiforest/curl_cffi
Oct 22, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Oct 22, 2024
Reviewed
Oct 22, 2024