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CVE-2023-46218
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2023-12-07 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-178
Description
This flaw allows a malicious HTTP server to set "super cookies" in curl that are then passed back to more origins than what is otherwise allowed or possible. This allows a site to set cookies that then would get sent to different and unrelated sites and domains. It could do this by exploiting a mixed case flaw in curl's function that verifies a given cookie domain against the Public Suffix List (PSL). For example a cookie could be set with `domain=co.UK` when the URL used a lower case hostname `curl.co.uk`, even though `co.uk` is listed as a PSL domain.
Affected products
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 39
- curl: from 7.46.0 through 8.4.0
References
- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2023-46218.html
- https://hackerone.com/reports/2212193
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00015.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3ZX3VW67N4ACRAPMV2QS2LVYGD7H2MVE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UOGXU25FMMT2X6UUITQ7EZZYMJ42YWWD/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240125-0007/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5587
- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2023-46218.html
- https://hackerone.com/reports/2212193
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00015.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3ZX3VW67N4ACRAPMV2QS2LVYGD7H2MVE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UOGXU25FMMT2X6UUITQ7EZZYMJ42YWWD/
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