CVE-2019-3822
Patch early
EPSS 12.9% — above the 10% action threshold.
Description
libcurl versions from 7.36.0 to before 7.64.0 are vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. The function creating an outgoing NTLM type-3 header (`lib/vauth/ntlm.c:Curl_auth_create_ntlm_type3_message()`), generates the request HTTP header contents based on previously received data. The check that exists to prevent the local buffer from getting overflowed is implemented wrongly (using unsigned math) and as such it does not prevent the overflow from happening. This output data can grow larger than the local buffer if very large 'nt response' data is extracted from a previous NTLMv2 header provided by the malicious or broken HTTP server. Such a 'large value' needs to be around 1000 bytes or more. The actual payload data copied to the target buffer comes from the NTLMv2 type-2 response header.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.1) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 12.87% — more likely to be exploited than 96% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-121 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2019-02-06 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (16)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu linux |
| debian | debian linux |
| haxx | libcurl |
| netapp | active iq unified manager |
| netapp | clustered data ontap |
| netapp | oncommand insight |
| netapp | oncommand workflow automation |
| netapp | snapcenter |
| oracle | communications operations monitor |
| oracle | enterprise manager ops center |
| oracle | http server |
| oracle | mysql server |
| oracle | secure global desktop |
| oracle | services tools bundle |
| redhat | enterprise linux |
| siemens | sinema remote connect client |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106950
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3701
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3822
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-436177.pdf
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2019-3822.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8338a0f605bdbb3a6098bb76f666a95fc2b2f53f37fa1ecc89f1146f%40%3Cdevnull.infra.apache.org%3E
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-03
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190315-0001/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190719-0004/
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K84141449
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K84141449?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3882-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4386
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106950
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3701
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3822
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-436177.pdf
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/CVE-2019-3822.html
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