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CURL-CVE-2016-8625
No affected components available
When curl is built with libidn to handle International Domain Names (IDNA), it translates them to puny code for DNS resolving using the IDNA 2003 standard, while IDNA 2008 is the modern and up-to-date IDNA standard.
This misalignment causes problems with for example domains using the German ß
character (known as the Unicode Character LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S) which
is used at times in the .de TLD and is translated differently in the two
IDNA standards, leading to users potentially and unknowingly issuing network
transfer requests to the wrong host.
For example, straße.de is translated into strasse.de using IDNA 2003 but
is translated into xn--strae-oqa.de using IDNA 2008. Needless to say, those
hostnames could well resolve to different addresses and be two completely
independent servers. IDNA 2008 is mandatory for .de domains.
curl is not alone with this problem, as there is currently a big flux in the world of network user-agents about which IDNA version to support and use.
This name problem exists for DNS-using protocols in curl, but only when built to use libidn.
Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.
No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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