Vulnerability Monitor

The vendors, products, and vulnerabilities you care about

CVE-2020-8284

A malicious server can use the FTP PASV response to trick curl 7.73.0 and earlier into connecting back to a given IP address and port, and this way potentially make curl extract information about services that are otherwise private and not disclosed, for example doing port scanning and service banner extractions.

Security Impact Summary

This vulnerability carries a LOW severity rating with a CVSS v3.1 score of 3.7, indicating it can be exploited remotely over the network but requires specific conditions to be met without requiring user interaction and does not require pre-existing privileges . The vulnerability impacts limited data confidentiality, for affected systems. Impacting 29 products from haxx, from fedoraproject, from debian and 26 others, organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.

Historical Context

Reported in 2020, this vulnerability emerged during an era marked by increased sophistication in supply chain attacks, cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) security challenges. Security practices during this period emphasized zero-trust architectures, container security, and API protection.

Published

2020-12-14T20:15:13.903

Last Modified

2024-11-21T05:38:39.193

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 3.7 (LOW)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: MEDIUM
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: NONE
Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Secondary
    CWE-200
  • Type: Primary
    NVD-CWE-noinfo
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application haxx curl ≤ 7.73.0 Yes
Operating System fedoraproject fedora 32 Yes
Operating System fedoraproject fedora 33 Yes
Operating System debian debian_linux 9.0 Yes
Operating System debian debian_linux 10.0 Yes
Application netapp clustered_data_ontap - Yes
Application netapp hci_management_node - Yes
Application netapp solidfire - Yes
Hardware netapp hci_storage_node - Yes
Operating System netapp hci_bootstrap_os - Yes
Hardware netapp hci_compute_node - No
Operating System apple mac_os_x < 10.14.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x < 10.15.7 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.14.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.14.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.14.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.14.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.14.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.14.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.14.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.14.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.14.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.14.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.14.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.14.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.14.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.14.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.14.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.14.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.14.6 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.15.7 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.15.7 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.15.7 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.15.7 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.15.7 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.15.7 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x 10.15.7 Yes
Operating System apple macos 11.0.1 Yes
Operating System apple macos 11.1 Yes
Operating System apple macos 11.2 Yes
Application oracle communications_billing_and_revenue_management 12.0.0.3.0 Yes
Application oracle communications_cloud_native_core_policy 1.14.0 Yes
Application oracle essbase 21.2 Yes
Application oracle peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools 8.58 Yes
Operating System fujitsu m10-1_firmware < xcp2410 Yes
Hardware fujitsu m10-1 - No
Operating System fujitsu m10-4_firmware < xcp2410 Yes
Hardware fujitsu m10-4 - No
Operating System fujitsu m10-4s_firmware < xcp2410 Yes
Hardware fujitsu m10-4s - No
Operating System fujitsu m12-1_firmware < xcp2410 Yes
Hardware fujitsu m12-1 - No
Operating System fujitsu m12-2_firmware < xcp2410 Yes
Hardware fujitsu m12-2 - No
Operating System fujitsu m12-2s_firmware < xcp2410 Yes
Hardware fujitsu m12-2s - No
Operating System fujitsu m10-1_firmware < xcp3110 Yes
Hardware fujitsu m10-1 - No
Operating System fujitsu m10-4_firmware < xcp3110 Yes
Hardware fujitsu m10-4 - No
Operating System fujitsu m10-4s_firmware < xcp3110 Yes
Hardware fujitsu m10-4s - No
Operating System fujitsu m12-1_firmware < xcp3110 Yes
Hardware fujitsu m12-1 - No
Operating System fujitsu m12-2_firmware < xcp3110 Yes
Hardware fujitsu m12-2 - No
Operating System fujitsu m12-2s_firmware < xcp3110 Yes
Hardware fujitsu m12-2s - No
Application siemens sinec_infrastructure_network_services < 1.0.1.1 Yes
Application splunk universal_forwarder < 8.2.12 Yes
Application splunk universal_forwarder < 9.0.6 Yes
Application splunk universal_forwarder 9.1.0 Yes
References

How SecUtils Interprets This CVE

SecUtils normalizes and enriches National Vulnerability Database (NVD) records by standardizing vendor and product identifiers, aggregating vulnerability metadata from both NVD and MITRE sources, and providing structured context for security teams. For haxx's affected products, we extract Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) data, Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classifications, CVSS severity metrics, and reference data to enable rapid vulnerability prioritization and asset correlation. This record contains no exploit code, proof-of-concept instructions, or attack methodologies—only defensive intelligence necessary for patch management, risk assessment, and security operations.