CVE-2013-1944

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-04-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The tailMatch function in cookie.c in cURL and libcurl before 7.30.0 does not properly match the path domain when sending cookies, which allows remote attackers to steal cookies via a matching suffix in the domain of a URL.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 8.04, 10.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10
curl: through 7.29.0; 6.0, 6.1, 6.1-beta, 6.2, 6.3, 6.3.1 (+95)
curl: through 7.29.0; 7.14.0, 7.14.1, 7.15.0, 7.15.1, 7.15.2, 7.15.3 (+17)

References

http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20130412.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00004.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102056.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102711.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104207.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104598.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105539.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106606.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00016.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0771.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/53044

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