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CVE-2017-7407

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.4 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The ourWriteOut function in tool_writeout.c in curl 7.53.1 might allow physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory in opportunistic circumstances by reading a workstation screen during use of a --write-out argument ending in a '%' character, which leads to a heap-based buffer over-read.

Affected products

• curl: 7.53.1

References

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
• https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/1890d59905414ab84a35892b2e45833654aa5c13
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-14
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
• https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/1890d59905414ab84a35892b2e45833654aa5c13
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-14

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