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CVE-2024-2379: QUIC certificate check bypass with wolfSSL

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-03-27 · updated 2026-10-15
• Weakness: CWE-295

Description

libcurl skips the certificate verification for a QUIC connection under certain conditions, when built to use wolfSSL. If told to use an unknown/bad cipher or curve, the error path accidentally skips the verification and returns OK, thus ignoring any certificate problems.

Affected products

• Apple macOS: before 12.7.6; from 13.0 before 13.6.8; from 14.0 before 14.6 — fixed in 12.7.6, 13.6.8, 14.6
• curl: 8.6.0
• Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions
• NetApp Bootstrap Os: all versions
• NetApp H300S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H410S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H500S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H610C Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H610S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H615C Firmware: all versions
• NetApp H700S Firmware: all versions
• NetApp ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility: all versions

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apple macOS 12.7.6, 13.6.8, 14.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/18
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/19
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/20
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/27/2
• https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2024-2379.html
• https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2024-2379.json
• https://hackerone.com/reports/2410774
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240531-0001/
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214118
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214119
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214120
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/18

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