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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2018-16890 Detail

Description

libcurl versions from 7.36.0 to before 7.64.0 is vulnerable to a heap buffer out-of-bounds read. The function handling incoming NTLM type-2 messages (`lib/vauth/ntlm.c:ntlm_decode_type2_target`) does not validate incoming data correctly and is subject to an integer overflow vulnerability. Using that overflow, a malicious or broken NTLM server could trick libcurl to accept a bad length + offset combination that would lead to a buffer read out-of-bounds.


Severity

 


CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  7.5 HIGH
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  Red Hat, Inc.
Base Score:  5.4 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L


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Note: It is possible that the NVD CVSS may not match that of the CNA. The most common reason for this is that publicly available information does not provide sufficient detail or that information simply was not available at the time the CVSS vector string was assigned.

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Hyperlink Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106947 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3701 Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16890 Issue Tracking  Mitigation  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-436177.pdf Third Party Advisory 
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2018-16890.html Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8338a0f605bdbb3a6098bb76f666a95fc2b2f53f37fa1ecc89f1146f@%3Cdevnull.infra.apache.org%3E Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190315-0001/ Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K03314397?utm_source=f5support&utm_medium=RSS Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3882-1/ Third Party Advisory 
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4386 Third Party Advisory 
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read cwe source acceptance level NIST   Reference acceptance level Red Hat, Inc.  
CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-16890
NVD Published Date:
02/06/2019
NVD Last Modified:
09/18/2020
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.