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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2020-8285 json

curl 7.21.0 to and including 7.73.0 is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion due to a stack overflow...

published 2020-12-14 5 y ago modified 2026-10-14 25 d ago also EUVD-2020-29153 , JLSEC-2025-24

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
9.8%
EPSS 9.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

curl 7.21.0 to and including 7.73.0 is vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion due to a stack overflow issue in FTP wildcard match parsing.

Patch / fix

  • julia LibCURL_jll 7.81.0+0
  • Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP V3.1.5
  • Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP V3.1.5
  • Siemens SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP V3.1.5
  • curl Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 7.74.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8285

  • curl Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.18
  • curl Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 7.58.0-2ubuntu3.12
  • curl Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.4
  • curl Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm6

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-8285

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • jbcs-httpd24 jboss core services 1 1-18.jbcs.el7
  • jbcs-httpd24 jboss core services 1 1-18.el8jbcs
  • jbcs-httpd24-apr jboss core services 1 1.6.3-105.jbcs.el7
  • jbcs-httpd24-apr jboss core services 1 1.6.3-105.el8jbcs
  • jbcs-httpd24-curl jboss core services 1 7.77.0-2.jbcs.el7
  • jbcs-httpd24-curl jboss core services 1 7.77.0-2.el8jbcs
  • jbcs-httpd24-httpd jboss core services 1 2.4.37-74.jbcs.el7
  • jbcs-httpd24-httpd jboss core services 1 2.4.37-74.el8jbcs

red hat advisories RHSA-2021:2472RHSA-2021:1610

  • curl SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES 12 SP4-LTSS, OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 +1 more 7.60.0-4.20.1
  • curl-openssl1 SLES 11-SECURITY 7.37.0-70.57.1
  • curl SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 7.60.0-11.9.1
  • curl SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP2 7.66.0-4.11.1
  • curl SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 7.60.0-3.35.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2021:1786-1SUSE-SU-2020:14585-1SUSE-SU-2020:3739-1SUSE-SU-2020:3735-1SUSE-SU-2020:3733-1

  • curl openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.79.1-1.1
  • curl openSUSE Leap 15.1 7.60.0-lp151.5.18.1
  • curl-mini openSUSE Leap 15.1 7.60.0-lp151.5.18.1
  • curl openSUSE Leap 15.2 7.66.0-lp152.3.12.1
  • curl-mini openSUSE Leap 15.2 7.66.0-lp152.3.12.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10582-1openSUSE-SU-2020:2249-1openSUSE-SU-2020:2238-1

  • curl Rocky Linux 8 7.61.1-18.el8

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2021:1610

  • curl Alpine 3.10 7.66.0-r3
  • curl Alpine 3.11 7.67.0-r3
  • curl Alpine 3.12 7.69.1-r3
  • curl Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +9 more 7.74.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2020-8285

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • curl Arch Linux 7.74.0-1

arch linux advisories AVG-1337

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-8285 updated cvss 6.5

curl: Malicious FTP server can trigger stack overflow when CURLOPT_CHUNK_BGN_FUNCTION is used

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 curl, libcurl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 curl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 curl, libcurl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 curl, libcurl
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Software Collections httpd24-curl, httpd24-libcurl
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Core Services Apache HTTP Server 2.4.37 SP8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2021:2471
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) curl 7.61.1-18.el8, libcurl 7.61.1-18.el8, libcurl-minimal 7.61.1-18.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2021:1610
  • Red Hat JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 Server jbcs-httpd24 1-18.jbcs.el7, jbcs-httpd24-runtime 1-18.jbcs.el7, jbcs-httpd24-apr 1.6.3-105.jbcs.el7, jbcs-httpd24-curl 7.77.0-2.jbcs.el7, jbcs-httpd24-httpd 2.4.37-74.jbcs.el7, jbcs-httpd24-jansson 2.11-55.jbcs.el7, +23 more Red Hat JBoss Core Services on RHEL 8 jbcs-httpd24 1-18.el8jbcs, jbcs-httpd24-runtime 1-18.el8jbcs, jbcs-httpd24-apr 1.6.3-105.el8jbcs, jbcs-httpd24-curl 7.77.0-2.el8jbcs, jbcs-httpd24-brotli 1.0.6-40.el8jbcs, jbcs-httpd24-httpd 2.4.37-74.el8jbcs, +30 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2021:2472
  • Red Hat .NET Core 2.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-dotnet21-curl, rh-dotnet21-libcurl Red Hat .NET Core 3.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-dotnet31-curl, rh-dotnet31-libcurl
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

cisa ICSA-23-348-10 updated cvss 7.5

Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500

  • Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP (6ES7518-4AX00-1AB0) >= 3.1.0, < 3.1.5 Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP (6ES7518-4AX00-1AC0) >= 3.1.0, < 3.1.5 Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP (6ES7518-4FX00-1AB0) >= 3.1.0, < 3.1.5 Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP (6ES7518-4FX00-1AC0) >= 3.1.0, < 3.1.5 Siemens SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP (6AG1518-4AX00-4AC0) >= 3.1.0, < 3.1.5
    affected: fixed in V3.1.5, mitigation support.industry.siemens.com

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
6 mo ago

Exploit prediction

9.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/6255 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia LibCURL_jll
<7.81.0+0
7.81.0+0

Affected products

  • n/a https://github.com/curl/curl
  • Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP
  • Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP
  • Siemens SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.