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CVE-2023-27534

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CVE-2023-27534

Published: Mar 30, 2023

Modified: Apr 23, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

A path traversal vulnerability exists in curl <8.0.0 SFTP implementation causes the tilde (~) character to be wrongly replaced when used as a prefix in the first path element, in addition to its intended use as the first element to indicate a path relative to the user's home directory. Attackers can exploit this flaw to bypass filtering or execute arbitrary code by crafting a path like /~2/foo while accessing a server with a specific user.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

https://github.com/curl/curl

affected
Fixed in 8.0.0

Weaknesses (CWE)

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