A buffer overflow exists in curl 7.12.3 to and including curl 7.58.0 in the FTP URL handling that allows an attacker to cause a denial of service or worse.
CVE-2018-1000120
Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-05-14. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8(medium)
- EG Risk
- 65(Track*)EG Risk 65/100SSVC: Track*
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity98% × 45%Exploitation40% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Watch closely — could escalate to Attend. - EPSS PROB
- 12%
- EPSS %ILE
- 96%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
March 14, 2018
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
Advisory Details (8)
Auto-updated Sep 5, 2026Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0594Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0544Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. (BZ#1640722)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3157Patch Availability(8)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | libcurl3 (7.22.0-3ubuntu4.21) @ precise | 2026-05-28 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | libcurl4-openssl-dev (7.47.0-1ubuntu2.7) @ xenial | 2026-05-28 | ubuntu |
| redhat | curl-0:7.29.0-42.el7_4.2 | 2020-02-25 | redhat |
| redhat | curl-0:7.29.0-46.el7_5.1 | 2020-02-19 | redhat |
| redhat | jbcs-httpd24-curl | 2019-06-18 | redhat |
| redhat | httpd24-nghttp2-0:1.7.1-7.el7 | 2018-11-13 | redhat |
| redhat | nss-pem-0:1.0.3-5.el7 | 2018-10-30 | redhat |
| nuget | curl | — | ghsa |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(29 across 29 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.10(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.15(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.16(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.17(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.18(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.19(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.20(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.21(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.22(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.23(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.24(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.4(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.5(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.6(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.7(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.8(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.9(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.59.0-r0 | — |
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.60.0-1 | — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.60.0-1 | — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.60.0-1 | — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | — | 7.60.0-1 | — |
Debian:7(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | 7.26.0-1+wheezy10 ... 7.26.0-1+wheezy9 (23 versions) | 7.26.0-1+wheezy25 | — |
Debian:8(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | 7.38.0-4 ... 7.38.0-4+deb8u9 (10 versions) | 7.38.0-4+deb8u10 | — |
Debian:9(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | 7.52.1-5, 7.52.1-5+deb9u1, 7.52.1-5+deb9u2, 7.52.1-5+deb9u3, 7.52.1-5+deb9u4 | 7.52.1-5+deb9u5 | — |
NuGet(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| curl | 7.30.0.1, 7.30.0.2 | — | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
(7)
Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
- Red HatRHSA-2018:3157MODERATE2018-03-14
RHSA-2018:3157 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2018:3558MODERATE2018-03-14
RHSA-2018:3558 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2019:1543MODERATE2018-03-14
RHSA-2019:1543 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2020:0544MODERATE2018-03-14
RHSA-2020:0544 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2020:0594MODERATE2018-03-14
RHSA-2020:0594 — Moderate
- UbuntuUSN-3598-1MEDIUM
curl vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-3598-2MEDIUM
curl vulnerabilities
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