CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-9681

Medium
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

When curl is asked to use HSTS, the expiry time for a subdomain might overwrite a parent domain's cache entry, making it end sooner or later than otherwise intended. This affects applications using HSTS and URLs with the insecure HTTP:// scheme.

Risk Assessment

This may lead to incorrect HSTS policy management, increasing the risk of downgrade attacks.

Recommendation

Update curl to a patched version and monitor HSTS configuration.

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Original NVD description (English source)

When curl is asked to use HSTS, the expiry time for a subdomain might overwrite a parent domain's cache entry, making it end sooner or later than otherwise intended. This affects curl using applications that enable HSTS and use URLs with the insecure `HTTP://` scheme and perform transfers with host

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