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CVE-2019-5443

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-07-02 · updated 2026-10-14
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

A non-privileged user or program can put code and a config file in a known non-privileged path (under C:/usr/local/) that will make curl <= 7.65.1 automatically run the code (as an openssl "engine") on invocation. If that curl is invoked by a privileged user it can do anything it wants.

Affected products

• curl: through 7.65.1
• OnCommand Insight: all versions
• NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager for 7-Mode (core package): from 7.3; from 9.5
• NetApp OnCommand Workflow Automation: all versions
• NetApp SnapCenter: all versions
• Oracle Corporation Enterprise Manager Ops Center: 12.3.3, 12.4.0
• Oracle Corporation Oracle HTTP Server: 12.2.1.3.0, 12.2.1.4.0
• MySQL Server: from 5.0.0 through 5.7.27; from 8.0.0 through 8.0.17
• Oracle Corporation OSS Support Tools: 20.0

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/24/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108881
• https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2019-5443.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191017-0002/
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
• https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/24/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108881
• https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2019-5443.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191017-0002/
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

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