curl 7.62.0 through 7.70.0 is vulnerable to an information disclosure vulnerability that can lead to a partial password being leaked over the network and to the DNS server(s).
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 4
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2020-8169.html Vendor Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2020-8169.html Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.5 · haxx, siemens, debianNVD modified 2026-10-14 09:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 6
cpe:2.3:a:haxx:curl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:siemens:simatic_tim_1531_irc_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:siemens:sinec_infrastructure_network_services:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:splunk:universal_forwarder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:splunk:universal_forwarder:9.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 13
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-200951.pdf Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2020-8169.html Vendor Advisory
- https://hackerone.com/reports/874778 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4881 Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-200951.pdf Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2020-8169.html Vendor Advisory
- https://hackerone.com/reports/874778 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4881 Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-200951.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-389290.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html