CVE-2023-46218
Published: Dec 7, 2023
Modified: May 12, 2026
Description
This flaw allows a malicious HTTP server to set "super cookies" in curl that are then passed back to more origins than what is otherwise allowed or possible. This allows a site to set cookies that then would get sent to different and unrelated sites and domains. It could do this by exploiting a mixed case flaw in curl's function that verifies a given cookie domain against the Public Suffix List (PSL). For example a cookie could be set with `domain=co.UK` when the URL used a lower case hostname `curl.co.uk`, even though `co.uk` is listed as a PSL domain.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
curl | curl | affected 8.4.0 - <= 8.4.0unaffected 7.46.0 - < 7.46.0 |
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