usn-5587-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2022-09-01 21:04
Modified
2026-06-29 10:52
Summary
curl vulnerability
Details

Axel Chong discovered that when curl accepted and sent back cookies containing control bytes that a HTTP(S) server might return a 400 (Bad Request Error) response. A malicious cookie host could possibly use this to cause denial-of-service.

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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "Axel Chong discovered that when curl accepted and sent back\ncookies containing control bytes that a HTTP(S) server might\nreturn a 400 (Bad Request Error) response. A malicious cookie\nhost could possibly use this to cause denial-of-service.\n",
  "id": "USN-5587-1",
  "modified": "2026-06-29T10:52:57Z",
  "published": "2022-09-01T21:04:02Z",
  "references": [
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      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5587-1"
    },
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    }
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  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "curl vulnerability",
  "upstream": [
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2022-35252"
  ]
}



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