Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-27779  

libcurl wrongly allows HTTP cookies to be set for Top Level Domains (TLDs) if the host name is provided with a trailing dot. This can allow arbitrary sites to set cookies that then would get sent to a different and unrelated site or domain.

Severity Medium

Remote Unknown

Type Unknown

Description

libcurl wrongly allows HTTP cookies to be set for Top Level Domains (TLDs) if the host name is provided with a trailing dot. This can allow arbitrary sites to set cookies that then would get sent to a different and unrelated site or domain.

AVG-2706 curl 7.83.0-1 7.83.1-1 Medium Testing

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2022/q2/93
https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2022-27779.html
https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/7e92d12b4e6911f
https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/b27ad8e1d3e68e

Affected versions: curl 7.82.0 to and including curl 7.83.0
Not affected versions: curl < 7.82.0 and curl >= 7.83.1